Paulk & Fossil v. Lee

In this suit for damages on account of personal injuries, brought for a minor by next friend, the jury were authorized, but not compelled, to find for the plaintiff, under the evidence submitted. It appears that the injury resulted from the boy’s trousers being caught in a revolving belt, attached at one end to the engine of the sawmill where he was working for the defendants, and at the other end to a pulley, while he was stepping back or being thrown back by the fall of a piece of lumber which he had been pushing upon rollers. The defendants’ alleged negligence consisted in failing to…