Kerker ex rel. Kerker v. Bettendorf Metal Wheel Co.

— The defendant owns and operates a plant for the production of metal wheels used in various kinds of machinery. The business, or some portion of it, is carried on in a 'shop about three hundred and seventy feet long, different parts of which are devoted to different branches of the work required in turning’ out the finished product. About two years prior to the accident complained of Noy Kerker, then a boy of sixteen years, entered the defendant’s employ, and during most of that period worked at or with a device known as a “shoulder machine” near one end of the shop. During the same period…