Doyle v. Lacroix

The plaintiff’s evidence tended to prove the following facts:

Mrs. Aurore Sirois, the mother of the plaintiff’s intestate, engaged the defendants to lay linoleum on certain floors in her home. One Nault, an employee of the defendants, and Moreau, his helper, performed this work. They had finished covering the floors and were about to return to the shop when Mrs. Sirois informed them that she wished to have the thresholds covered also. While making this request she was standing in the kitchen with the child in her arms. As Nault and Moreau stepped into the adjoining room to get the linoleum,…