International Harvester Co. v. Williams

Elgin Williams, Jr., a boy, age seven years, on the last anniversary of his birth, September 15, 1929, after alighting from a school bus in which he had been riding on his way home from school on November 4, 1929, while crossing a public highway near his home, came in collision with a passing truck, and as a consequence both bones in his left leg were broken a few inches below his knee.

The boy and his father each brought suit against the defendant; the boy claiming damages for the personal injury, the father claiming damages for loss of services of his minor son and expenses incident to the…