E. S. Higgins Carpet Co. v. O'Keefe
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This was an action at law, brought by O'Keefe, by guardian, against the E. S. Higgins Carpet Company, to recover damages for personal injuries. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, and defendant has brought this writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
This is a writ of error by the, defendant in the court below to review a judgment for the plaintiff entered upon the verdict of a jury. The action was brought to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, upon the theory that the defendant, his employer, was guilty of negligence in providing an unsafe appliance for the use of the plaintiff. •
It appeared upon the trial that the plaintiff, a boy then about 15 years old, entered the service of the defendant, and, after working for several months in the room where a machine run by steam, known as a “wool…
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