William Max Ward, a Minor, Suing by His Mother and Next Friend, Jewell Ward v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment entered on a jury verdict for the defendant holding, in effect, that the minor plaintiff was an employee of defendant’s insured within the meaning of an exclusion clause of the automobile liability insurance contract. 1 The only issue is whether the Alabama statutory provisions regarding child labor prevented plaintiff, appellant, from becoming an “employee of the insured” within the meaning of that exclusion provision.

The liability insurance policy in effect at the time of the accident had been issued by the defendant, appellee, to its…