Baer v. Baird Machine Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Ralph Wheeler, Jverdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,500, and appeal by the defendant. The plaintiff at the time of his injury was a boy sixteen years and eight months of age. Leaving school at fifteen, he entered the service of the defendant as an apprentice.
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Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Ralph Wheeler, Jverdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,500, and appeal by the defendant. The plaintiff at the time of his injury was a boy sixteen years and eight months of age. Leaving school at fifteen, he entered the service of the defendant as an apprentice. The defendant is a manufacturer of machinery, presses, etc. At first the plaintiff worked upon foot presses, and afterward upon other…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
The court denied motions made by the defendant in arrest of judgment, for a direction of verdict in favor of the defendant, and that the verdict rendered be set aside as being contrary to the evidence. The action of the court in each of these particulars is assigned as error, as is also its failure to give the jury certain instructions.
The motion in arrest of judgment was properly denied. The complaint is one which could not be attacked successfully after verdict, even if it would not have stood the test of a demurrer. In Wall v. Toomey, 52 Conn. 35, 39, we queried whether under our Practice…
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- Elie v. C. Cowles & Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1909
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