Wilson v. Chess & Wymond Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 65 — Action by Charles Wilson’s Admr. against the Chess & Wymond Co. for Damages for Personal Injuries. APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, LAW AND EQUITY DIVISION. Judgment for Defendant and Plaintiff Appeals. It is shown on the trial in this ease that the intestate, Wilson, was a boy, eighteen years iof age, who had been in appellee’s employ about three weeks.
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Case 65 — Action by Charles Wilson’s Admr. against the Chess & Wymond Co. for Damages for Personal Injuries. APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, LAW AND EQUITY DIVISION. Judgment for Defendant and Plaintiff Appeals. It is shown on the trial in this ease that the intestate, Wilson, was a boy, eighteen years iof age, who had been in appellee’s employ about three weeks. That a large vat filled with scalding water was used by appellee in its cooperage works for the purpose of steaming kegs, that it was without covering or guard of any kind for the protection of those whose work required them to…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court by
JUDGE O’REAR
Affirming.
This appeal is from a judgment rendered upon a verdict returned in favor of appellee under a peremptory instruction. The action was brought by Wilson, a minor about eighteen years old. by his guardian, for damages sustained by Wilson about November 21, 1898, in falling into a tank of boiling water at appellee’s stave factory. In his petition, plaintiff complained that, alongside of the tank where he was working, ice had formed, making it dangerous for him to stand. His duties were to place unfinished kegs in the water in the tank, where they were…
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