Prentiss v. Kent Furniture Manufacturing Co.

This action is brought to recover damages for personal injury received by the plaintiff while employed in the defendant’s furniture factory.

The judge of the superior court of Grand Rapids, where the cause was tried, on request of counsel for the defendant, instructed the jury to render a verdict in favor of the defendant. To this instruction counsel for plaintiff excepted, and this exception only need be considered in disposing of the case.

The plaintiff was injured in October, 1883, at which time *479he was about nineteen years of age. At the time the injury •occurred the plaintiff was at work in…