Huff v. Ames
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court for Adams county. Tried below before Morris, J. Plaintiff’s negligence was the proximate cause and his employment by defendants, at most, but the remote cause of the injury, the plaintiff therefore should not recover. Trow v. Vermont It. It.
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Error to the district court for Adams county. Tried below before Morris, J. Plaintiff’s negligence was the proximate cause and his employment by defendants, at most, but the remote cause of the injury, the plaintiff therefore should not recover. Trow v. Vermont It. It. Co., 24 Vt., 487. Callahan v. Warne, 40 Mo., 131. Galena, Dunhith M. P. Co. v. Vandergrif, 34 Id., 55. Redfield on Railways, 330. Michigan P. B. Co. v. Leahey, 10 Mich., 193. Stilson v. Hannibal & St. Joe R. R. Co., 67 Mo., 671. On tenth instruction cited: Waite v. N. E. By. Gb., 28 Law Journal (Q. B.), 258. Ohio, Etc., Ry. Co.…
1Opinion of the CourtReese, J.
The plaintiffs in error employed the defendant in error to labor for them in and about a cane mill, while engaged in crushing sugar cane. The defendant in error was a boy of the age of eleven years, and while feeding the mill his hand was caught between the rollers and so severely injured as to require the amputation of two of his fingers. This action was instituted by him, through his next friend, for damages resulting from the alleged carelessness of the plaintiffs in error in requiring him, at his age, to feed the cane mill, that being a dangerous employment.
Upon the trial the plaintiffs…
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