Card v. Wilkins

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mague, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff brought this action to recover damages from defendants for an injury received by him while in their employ, which he claimed resulted from a breach of their duty to him as masters.

At the trial plaintiff represented himself to have been a little over twelve years old at the time he received the injury. He was then employed in tending a machine called a “ gilling” machine in defendants’ shop. From the description he *297gave of that machine, it appeared that it contained two pairs of rollers armed with sharp teeth of…