Standard Oil Co. v. Eiler
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 24 — Action for Personal Injuries — APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, LAW AND EQUITY DIVISION. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant Appeals. This action was instituted by appellee, a boy about seventeen years of age, to recover damages for personal injuries.
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Case 24 — Action for Personal Injuries — APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, LAW AND EQUITY DIVISION. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant Appeals. This action was instituted by appellee, a boy about seventeen years of age, to recover damages for personal injuries. He alleges he was in the employment of appellant, and was directed to work about a machine which,was defective and dangerous, but this fact was not known to him and could not have been known to him by the exercise of ordinary care, but was known to appellant, or could have been so known by ordinary care, that he had no warning as…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE HOBSON
Affirming.
Appellee sued appellant to recover damages for personal injuries received, as be alleged, by reason of the *212negligence of appellant. The facts of the case, as shown by the proof for appellee, are substantially as follows: Appellee began work for appellant in July, 1898. He was seventeen years of age, and unskilled in the use of machinery. He was employed to do work as a laborer by appellant in rolling barrels and the like until the evening before he was hurt. That evening he was sent by his foreman to help Johnson shovel corn. The next morning he…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Railroad Co. v. StoutSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
3Cited by2 opinions
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. CrainCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1920
- Shapinsky & Co. v. SappCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1913