O'Leary v. Michigan State Telephone Co.

The judgment rendered in this action was in favor of an infant, who, at the time of the injury for which he sued, was seven years of age. The defendant’s construction gang was engaged in stringing a trolley wire, using a block or pulley, through which a rope ran, when the wire was being drawn forward, the power being applied by a team attached to the end of the rope, the team, at the time of the accident, being some distance from the block. The child meddled with the rope, and his hand was drawn into the block and crushed. Three important questions are raised:(1) Was it negligence on the part…