Doyle v. Pittsburg Waste Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 69, Oct. T., 1902, by plaintiff; from order of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., Feb. T., 1901, No. 507, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of William T.Doyle, a Minor, by his Next Friend, Walter Sullivan, v. Pitts-burg Waste Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Etans, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was refusal to take off nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Mestbezat,
William T. Doyle, the plaintiff, a minor of the age of sixteen years and four months, was engaged by the defendant company to work on a bailing machine in the yard of its manufactory in the city of Pittsburg. After he had been thus employed for a week he was put to work by the foreman on a rag cutting machine in the manufactory. He had worked at this employment four hours when in attempting to clean the fan, apart of the machine, his hand was caught in the revolving cylinder and so badly injuried that the amputation of his arm became necessary. It is claimed…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Rummel v. Dilworth, Porter & Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
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