Stevenson v. W. M. Ritter Lumber Co.

This action is to recover damages resulting from the death of the plaintiff’s minor son, alleging that he was a minor at the time, and that that fact was known to the defendant corporation; that the son was employed by the defendant without the plaintiff’s consent; that contrary to its duty the defendant required or permitted the son to engage in a business “dangerous for one of his years and experience,” viz., “to engage in hauling heavy logs from the woods to the defendant’s mill, which logs were hoisted upon a tram road by means of hoisting machines, derricks, &c., from a steep incline;…