Sterne v. Mariposa Commercial & Mining Co.

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment in favor of plaintiff for seven thousand dollars damages for personal injuries, alleged to have been suffered by him through the negligence of defendant, and from an order denying its motion for a new trial.

Plaintiff, a boy nearly seventeen years of age, was in the employ of defendant at its mine in Mariposa County. There was a hoisting plant operated by steam used in the mining work, and plaintiff was employed as fireman and in assisting around the engine used as a part of such hoisting plant, and to perform certain other duties such as running…