Blackman v. Western Electric Co.

This is an action by plaintiff against his employer, the Western Electric Company, and its foreman, to recover damages in the sum of $10,000 for personal injuries. F!rom a judgment in favor of plaintiff for $8,000, defendants have appealed.

When plaintiff was injured, he was 16' years and five months old. His regular work was taking apart and cleaning telephones and polishing nickel. Being anxious to make a partition in a drawer in which he and fellow employees kept their tools, he went to a rip-saw in his employer’s workshop, January 2, 1911, with a four-foot board four inches wide, and…