Isadore Donner v. David H. Levine

MEDINA, Circuit Judge.

Isadore Donner, plaintiff-appellant, at the age of 19 went to work for defendants’ New Haven Quilt and Pad Company in 1936. After some months, during which he operated a sewing machine, he obtained other employment, but returned in 1939 and for a considerable period continued as a sewing machine operator. Charles Kaplowitz, a brother-in-law of one of the defendants, was plaintiff’s foreman and another relative, Herman Cohen, worked in the commercial comforter department and had been in defendants’ employ for some time prior to plaintiff’s arrival on the scene.

Later, and…