Wheeler v. Boyer

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Sloan, J.:

This is an action to recover damages for a personal *649injury. The trial court sustained a demurrer to plaintiff’s evidence, and the plaintiff appeals.

The parties to this action are residents of Sumner county. In May, 1930, the defendants employed Clarence M. Wheeler, with the approval of his parents, to assist in breaking an eighty-acre tract of land in Stanton county, near Johnson City. The plaintiff was between eighteen and nineteen years of age at the time of the employment. Charles Boyer, one of the defendants, and the plaintiff went to…