Middleton v. Faulkner

Appellees at the time of the injury herein were engaged in cutting certain timber and converting same into cord-wood for shipment. Appellant, who sues by next friend, was a minor seventeen years of age, wholly without experience in such work, or in the use of the tool which caused the injury; and those facts appellees knew. Appellees employed appellant as a laborer, and among1 the tools furnished him was a wedge which was worn down and battered. As appellant started to work, a fellow employee suggested to him that the wedge was not suitable for use and that another should be obtained.…