Moylon v. D. S. McDonald Co.

This is an action of tort at common law to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff, a boy fourteen years of age, while in the defendant’s employment. In the Superior Court, upon all the evidence, a verdict in the defendant’s favor having been ordered and returned, the case is before us on the plaintiff’s exceptions to the ruling.

In the performance of his work the plaintiff was directed by the defendant’s superintendent to use a freight elevator that ran between the different floors of the .defendant’s building. While using it his foot became jammed between the side of…