Mitchell v. Mione Mfg. Co.

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

This appeal was taken by the defendant from a judgment in favor of a minor plaintiff in an action of trespass, for damages sustained in consequence of an injury received while operating a machine in defendant’s factory; his employment by the defendant being in violation of the Act of May 13, 1915, P. L. 286, known as the Child Labor Act.

It is not disputed that the boy was fifteen years old at the time of the accident; nor that the defendant company, which employed him, had not complied with the 8th section of the Act of 1915, supra, which requires, as to minors under…