Rodríguez ex rel. Rodríguez v. National Cash Register Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment against the defendant ■corporation and in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of $1,000 and the costs in an action for damages for personal injury to the plaintiff’s right foot by the falling’ thereon of an apparatus called a credit-file, weighing more than 125 pounds.

The plaintiff alleged that on March 15, 1920, José Casals Valdés, an employee or representative of the defendant, asked the plaintiff, who was then under 14 years of age, to assist him in carrying an apparatus called a credit-file from a store to a hand-cart on the street, saying that he would…