Supreme Court of Kansas January 6, 1906, No. 13,936 (United States Express Co. v. Everest)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

BURCH, J.:

The plaintiff recovered damages for an injury to his seventeen-year-old son alleged to have been occasioned by the defendant’s negligence. The injured party was a messenger of the Western Union Telegraph Company, whose duties required him to deliver messages in and about the union depot in Kansas City, Mo.