James D. Hollinghead v. The Carter Oil Company

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court sustaining the defendant’s motion for summary judgment in an action by appellant for the wrongful death of his fifteen year old son.

The facts are relatively simple, and we find that the trial judge correctly decided that there was no genuine issue of fact established by the pleadings and affidavits and the summary judgment was proper.

Plaintiff’s son, Obie Hollinghead, a youth fifteen years of age, accompanied by his eight year old brother, was out hunting possums after dark on land leased by the appellee for its crude…