Koehler v. Syracuse Specialty Manufacturing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Syracuse Specialty Manufacturing Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 21st day of March, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,750 rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of Onondaga, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of March, 1896, denying the defendant’s…
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Appeal by the defendant, the Syracuse Specialty Manufacturing Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 21st day of March, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,750 rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of Onondaga, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of March, 1896, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.
The defendant, at the times hereinafter named, was a domestic corporation engaged in the manufacture of currycombs, having its place of business at the city of Syracuse in this State.
The plaintiff, who brings this action to recover damages for a personal injury received by him while in the employ of the defendant, was a lad a little more than sixteen years of age at the time of receiving such injury.
On the 16th day of June, 1895, he applied to the defendant for employment, and his application was accepted, and at one o’clock in the afternoon of the same day he was set at work at a machine…
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