Ballow v. Postal Telegraph Cable Co.

This was an action by Robert S. Ballow, a minor past fourteen years of age, who sued by his next friend to recover damages from his employer, the defendant Postal Telegraph Cable Co., for personal injuries sustained in a collision of his bicycle with the shafts of a wagon left unattended in Wall Street, in the. City of Nashville, while in the course of his employment as a messenger boy. in violation of the Child Labor Statute (Shannon’s Code, sec. 4433a87) which prohibited the employment of boys under sixteen years of age to work for telegraph companies and certain other companies more than…