Whiteneck v. Board of Commissioners of Woods County

The plaintiff in error, as plaintiff below, commenced an action to recover damages from Woods county, Okla., for the death of her husband, Roy White-neck. The trial court sustained a demurrer to plaintiff’s petition, from which action of the trial court, plaintiff has prosecuted this appeal.

The facts alleged in this petition were as follows: Roy Whiteneck was employed by Woods, county, together with .six or seven other men, in the construction of -a bridge on a public highway in Woods county, under the supervision of the county engineer; while Whiteneck was placing certain wooden planks in…