Rolin v. . Tobacco Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by Willie Rolin, by bis next friend, against R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., beard by Judge E. B. Jones and a jury, at tbe December Term, 1905, of tbe Superior Court of I’ORSYTH. Action for damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff while in defendant’s employment. Plaintiff testified : “I commenced work for tbe defendant about a year ago, May, 1904. I went in there one Monday morning.
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ActioN by Willie Rolin, by bis next friend, against R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., beard by Judge E. B. Jones and a jury, at tbe December Term, 1905, of tbe Superior Court of I’ORSYTH. Action for damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff while in defendant’s employment. Plaintiff testified : “I commenced work for tbe defendant about a year ago, May, 1904. I went in there one Monday morning. Mr. Nichols, boss man in tbe room, spoke to me and asked me if I wanted to weigh fillers. I told him ‘yes.’ He took me over and put me to weighing; then be put me to cutting lumps on a table. They…
1Opinion of the Court
Connor, J.,
after stating the case: The plaintiff bases his right to recover on the facts admitted by the demurrer upon two propositions: That his employment by the defendant, he being under twelve years of age, was in violation of the provisions of chapter 473, section 1, of the Act of 1903, prohibiting employment of children under twelve years of age, was per se negligence or at least evidence of negligence, and that such negligence was the proximate cause of the injury sustained by him.
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