King v. Floding

1. As a general rule, a parent may recover damages for an injury to his minor child in the course of the child’s employment, when he was employed without the parent’s consent, even if there be no negligence on the part of the employer. See Braswell v. Garfield Cotton Oil Mill Co., 7 Ga. App. 167 (66 S. E. 539), and cases cited in note in 30 L. R. A. (N. S.) 311. The consent of the parent to the employment of the child may, however, be inferred from his knowledge of such employment and his acquiescence therein. In this case the child, who was nearly 17 years old, himself made the contract to…