Paul v. Consolidated Fireworks Co. of America
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Consolidated Fireworks Company of America, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 8th day of May, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury for $10,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of May, 1908, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The plaintiff, a hoy about fifteen years of age, was lawfully employed by the defendant in one' of its small buildings, the plant consisting of various detached structures, on the 27th day of March, 1907. The accident occurred in the finishing shop, a building thirty by fifty feet, and he was employed at the time in nailing small sticks to pieces of fireworks known as “geysers:” These appear to be round pasteboard receptacles about eleven inches long and two inches in diameter, filled under hydraulic pressure with saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal, the constituent elements of…
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