Rudy v. McCloskey & Co.

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

Defendant MeCIoskey & Company, in the course of constructing a building in the Borough of State College, requested a local labor union to supply workmen. G-eorge Albert Rudy was among those who appeared. He had been admitted to membership in the union on his representation that he was oyer 18 years of age, the minimum age requirement, and on October 26, 1938 when questioned, told defendant’s employment agent that he was bom on May 10, 1920. Relying on this representation defendant employed him as a laborer. On November 16,1938, when Rudy was about to remove a wheelbarrow…