Thomson v. Issaquaii Shingle Co.

This action was commenced by Robert Thomson, as guardian ad litem of Robert Thomson, Jr., whom we will designate as the respondent, to recover damages for personal injuries. Respondent was seventeen years of age, and had at irregular intervals worked around shingle mills for soma two or three years, not at all times as a knot sawyer, his experience in that work being quite limited. The knot saw table in appellant’s mill was about three feet in length, two and one-half feet wide, and two and one-half feet high. At either side, to the back of the table and slightly elevated, was another table…