White v. Boulia-Gorrell Lumber Co.

The plaintiff was a minor at the time of the accident. A release of all demands against the defendant was executed by the plaintiff’s father, who signed the release as the plaintiff’s “next friend.” This instrument is not a bar to the action. Roberts v. Hillsborough Mills, ante, 517.

There is no claim that the accident did not arise “out of and in the course of” the plaintiff’s employment. P. L., c. 178, s. 2. Since that employment exposed the plaintiff at times “to the dangers incident to proximity to machinery” he was an employee under class II of the statute and is “entitled to the benefit…