Fontana v. Ford Motor Co.

Plaintiff had judgment for personal injuries which he claims he sustained while in the employ of defendant corporation (hereinafter referred to as defendant), when he was under 18 years of age, and was engaged in a “hazardous employment, ’ ’ in violation of 2 Comp. Laws 1929, § 8326.

His claim is that in March, 1924, when he was 17 years old, he was set to work, at night, taking short pieces of hoards and wood products from an endless belt and gravity roller conveyor, running out from a sawmill, and loading them into a dump cart; the bind wheel of the cart had a diameter of about six feet; he…