Sturges & Burn Manufacturing Co. v. Beauchamp
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP ILLINOIS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Illinois Child Labor Act of 1903, are stated in the opinion. The common-law rule of contributory negligence applies to minors. 7 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law, 2d ed., p. 409; Heiman v. Kinare, 190 Illinois, 156. The common-law rule of contributory negligence has not been abolished by child labor statutes.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP ILLINOIS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Illinois Child Labor Act of 1903, are stated in the opinion. The common-law rule of contributory negligence applies to minors. 7 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law, 2d ed., p. 409; Heiman v. Kinare, 190 Illinois, 156. The common-law rule of contributory negligence has not been abolished by child labor statutes. Berdos v. Tremont Mills, 209 Massachusetts, 489-498; Beghold v. Auto Body Co., 149 Michigan; 14; Bromberg v. Evans Laundry Co., 134 Iowa, 38, 46; Braasch v.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hughes
The Sturges and Burn Manufacturing Company is a corporation engaged in manufacturing tinware and other metal products. It employed Arthur Beauchamp, the defendant in error, who was under sixteen years of age, as a press hand to operate a punch press used in stamping sheet metal. Beauchamp was injured in operating the press and' brought an action through his next friend, in the Superior Court of Cook County, to recover the damages sustained, counting on' the statute of Illinois passed in 1903 (Laws of 1903, p. 187, Hurd's Statutes, 1909, p. 1082) which, by § 11, prohibited the employment of…
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