Hobbs v. Small

This case comes to us upon the sustaining of a general demurrer; and the .allegations of the petition are therefore to be taken as the truth of the case. The defendant, who was the owner and operator of a plant in which lumber, sashes, doors, blinds, etc., were manufactured, directed the plaintiff, a boy, sixteen years of age, who had been previously engaged at the mill in piling and hauling lumber, to assist another employee in edging boards at a jointer, which is a machine containing a set of rapidly-revolving gang-saws, a work in which the plaintiff was wholly inexperienced. In response to…