Lee v. Sterling Silk Manufacturing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Sterling Silk Manufacturing Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the count}' of Kings on the 6tli day of May, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th day of May, 1905, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.;
The court left nothing to the jury save an assessment of the damages, and the appeal is by the defendant. The action is by an jnfant servant (through guardian) against liis master. The complaint is that the servant when thirteen years old was directed to work about dangerous machinery by the master who knew the servant’s years and gave such direction contrary to the statute, who negligently permitted parts of the machinery to fall into disrepair *590and become dangerous and so to remain, who neglected to tell the servant of the danger or to instruct him how to work or to inform him of…
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