Rudberg v. Bowden Felting Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, by a boy born on October 29,1889, for injuries received on July 7, 1902, in the defendant’s mill at Millbury, from his hand being caught in a card machine. Writ dated December 22, 1902. At the trial in the Superior Court before Pierce, J. the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $1,691.91; and the defendant alleged exceptions, raising the questions stated by the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
While that portion of the charge which refers to the law with reference to the employment of minors in a factory and to the desire of the presiding judge that it should be properly enforced had nothing whatever to do with the case, and while the remarks on that subject, if unrecalled, might have been regarded as prejudicial to the defendant, still, in view of the very positive and emphatic way in which the jury were *366finally told to dismiss this part of the charge from their minds and deal with the case as though the remarks had not been made, and not in “ the slightest degree to impute to…
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- De Costa v. Hargraves MillsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898
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