Odom v. Arkansas Pipe & Scrap Material Co.

Appellant, Mrs. Lucille Odom, designating herself as “mother and next friend of James Odom, deceased,” instituted this suit in the lower court against appellee to recover damages growing out of the death of her minor son, J ames Odom. Appellant alleged that her said son, who was slightly less than eighteen years old at the time of his death, had been employed by appellee, without her consent, to work at an oil well and while doing so was killed by reason of the negligence of appellee; and, as “heir of his estate,” she prayed for damages for her son’s pain and suffering in the sum of $15,000,…