Wilt v. Vickers
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of York county. Vickers against Wilt. This was an action on the case in which the plaintiff alleged that he had hired his son to the defendant, who caused him to ride an unruly house from which he was thrown and one of his legs broken. Several bills of exceptions were taken by the defendant to the admission and rejection of evidence and the charge; all of which are distinctly stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
This was an action on the case, brought in the court below by the defendant in error, against the plaintiff in error. The ground of the action was that the son of the plaintiff below, a minor about nine or ten years of age, being in the service of the defendant under a hiring, upon an agreement made with the father, specifying no definite period of time, the defendant compelled the *228son to ride an unruly and unmanageable horse, knowing the horse to be such, in order to take him to pasture; that the horse threw the son off so as to break the…
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