Claim of Newton v. Spear & Co.

Memorandum by the Court. The awards appealed from were for double compensation under section 14-a of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. Claimant was accidentally injured while operating a freight elevator, the maximum speed of which was 144 feet per minute. He was then seventeen and one-half years of age. The violation of law which has been found was as to rule 408 of Industrial Code Bulletin No. 8 which forbade such employment by one under eighteen, although the statute did not do so, in that it only so interdicted as to a male person between sixteen and eighteen in the case of an elevator…