Perkins v. Long Bell Lumber Co.

Gonzalous Perkins, employed by the Long Bell Lumber Company, Inc., as rider for a skidder horse, got his right leg and thigh badly broken while engaged in the work for which he was employed to do by a falling tree which was being felled by defendant’s cutters. The accident happened on May 23, 1924. He was a minor at the time, and this suit was brought for him by' his father and mother. He was soon afterwards emanci*404pated and relieved of the time prescribed by law for attaining the age of majority. He was substituted as plaintiff, and proceeded with the suit in his own name and for his own…