Thomas' Guardian v. Bowman Watts Co.

Opinion of the -Court by

Chief Justice Clay

^Reversing.

The appeal is from a judgment based on a directed verdict.

The only question is whether there was sufficient evidence of negligence to 'take the case to the jury.

Briefly stated the facts are: The Bowman Watts Company owned a truck which was driven by Alvin Dalton. According to William Marion Thomas, who was seven years of age at the time of the accident, he and his ten year old brother James and several other boys between the ages of six and thirteen had on ¡several occasions assisted the truck driver in pushing the truck out of the garage…