Caine ex rel. Cavanaugh v. Victor Lamp Co.

This Gase appears to be one of first impression in this state, and we have therefore endeavored to give it the consideration which its importance demands, realizing that a decree contrary to defendant’s contentions will in all probability affect numerous cases of a similar nature.

On October 25, 1911, plaintiff lost two fingers of his left hand while at work upon a punch press in the factory operated by defendant in this city. At that time he was sixteen years and one month old. He lived with Mary j. Cavanaugh, an aged woman, by whom he had been taken from an orphan asylum and adopted at the…