Smith v. Irwin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Van Syckel, J.

There are two suits involving the same questions of law, one brought by the father to recover damages for injury to his son, and the other brought by the son, in ¡the name of the father, to recover compensation for injury to himself. Smith, the defendant below, was a manufacturer in the city of Newark. Robert J. Irwin, the son, then seventeen years old, was injured August 4th, 1886, while working :a circular saw on the said defendant’s premises.

The question for consideration on the trial of the cause was, whether, under the evidence, the…