Fitzgerald v. Alma Furniture Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Action by William Fitzgerald, by next friend, against the Alma Furniture Company, heard by Judge Thos. J. Shaw and a jury, at February Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of Davidson County. From a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, J.
Tbe plaintiff, who sues by bis next friend, testified that when nine years old, one day when bis father was absent from borne (and be did not return until after tbe little boy was injured), be went to tbe factory of tbe defendant to get work, tbe foreman offered liim twenty-five cents a day, and put bim to work “tailing a moulder” and pulling sawdust to the furnace; the next day he tailed tbe planer, and tbe *637next day about one o’clock he was put to work on the sander, which is a machine with rollers and sand-paper on the rollers, run by belts; that when he went to work at it a man was running…
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