Borck v. Michigan Bolt & Nut Works
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne; Lillibridge, J. Case by Anthony Borck, an infant, by Andrew Borck, his next friend, against the Michigan Bolt & Nut Works, for personal injuries. From a judgment for defendant on verdict directed by the court, plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Long, O. J.
Plaintiff was injured by falling into the cogwheels in a machine used by the defendant in its shop. He was about 12£ years old at the time he entered defendant’s employ, and had worked in the shop about 3 months when the accident happened. The defendant’s shop is about 50 feet wide and some 250 feet long. It is well lighted, and the accident occurred in the daytime. The machines are arranged in the shop in three rows, the space between the rows being about six feet. The machines are about four feet square, and some consist of cogwheels, and others of twisted blades. The cogwheels…
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