Birmingham News Co. v. Andrews
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County ; D. A. Green, Judge. Action by Herman Andrews by bis next friend against the Birmingham News Company for damages for personal injuries. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County ; D. A. Green, Judge. Action by Herman Andrews by bis next friend against the Birmingham News Company for damages for personal injuries. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The complaint charges that the defendant negligently employed the plaintiff, a child under 16 years of age, to work at a gainful occupation in its publishing and printing plant after the hour of 6 p. m. and before the hour of 6 a. m.; that while so employed the plaintiff was injured by falling or sliding or being thrown from a chute in said plant, and that this injury…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
[1] The complaint-charges a violation by thei defendant company of a provision of section 2, as italicized below, of the Child Labor Act (Gen. Acts 1915, p. 193), which is as follows:
“No child under sixteen years of age shall be .employed, permitted or suffered to work in any gainful occupation except agriculture, or domestic service for more than six days in any one week, or more- than sixty hours in any one week, or more than eleven hours in any one day, or before the hour of six o’clock in the morning, or after the hour of six o’clock in the evening.”
These several inhibitions are obviously…
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