Hart v. Blair

Harry Frank Hart, a minor under the age of 16 years, died from injuries received in an accident while he was steering a truck owned or operated by the defendants John L. Blair or Double Jay Service. The administrator of the boys estate sued those defendants for damages alleging they had "wrongfully, or wilfully, or wantonly, or recklessly, or negligently," caused the minor to steer a truck owned or operated by them while it was not operating under its own power but was being towed by another truck, also owned by those defendants, upon a United States highway in this State, during which operation the steered truck swerved off the highway, rolled over throwing the boy onto the highway, thereby inflicting injuries from which he died, and that the employment of the deceased to steer the truck violated the child labor law and the motor vehicle code of this State. The complaint further alleged that as the Industrial Accident Fund of Wyoming had paid certain expenses incident to the accident totaling $761.50, the Workmens Compensation Department of the State was a necessary party and should be reimbursed.