Spaulding v. Tucker & Carter Cordage Co.

A motion for nonsuit herein was granted, and the plaintiff’s exception thereto ordered to he heard in the first instance at General Term. The plaintiff, a lad of sixteen, employed in a ropewallc, tripped on one of the rails of the track upon which the twisting machine traveled, and, in falling, he extended his hand toward the machine, in the cogwheels of which it was caught and badly mangled. He was not employed to work upon the machine, but to spread the strands along the ropewalk for those in charge of the machine to then attach them thereto and twist into a finished rope, and it can be…