Stamford Oil Mill Co. v. Barnes

Barnes, as plaintiff, brought this action to recover of the oil company, defendant, damages sustained by himself from injuries inflicted on his minor son, English Barnes, -which he alleges to have been caused by negligence of the defendant. The occurrence out of which the action grew was one of those distressing ones shown by the reports to have become rather frequent, in which children have had their feet caught in conveyors used in such mills as that of the defendant. A brother, sixteen years old, of English Barnes, who was twelve years old, by direction of his father went on four different…