Kaufhold v. Arnold
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 497, Jan. T., 1894, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Lancaster Co., Jan. T., 1891, No. 59, on verdict for plaintiff, Harry A. Kaufhold, by his father and next friend, Andrew Kaufhold. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Livingston, P. J. At the trial, it appeared that plaintiff, Harry A. Kaufhold, a boy eleven years and nine months old, was injured on Aug.'29, 1890, while working in defendant’s cork factory.
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Appeal, No. 497, Jan. T., 1894, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Lancaster Co., Jan. T., 1891, No. 59, on verdict for plaintiff, Harry A. Kaufhold, by his father and next friend, Andrew Kaufhold. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Livingston, P. J. At the trial, it appeared that plaintiff, Harry A. Kaufhold, a boy eleven years and nine months old, was injured on Aug.'29, 1890, while working in defendant’s cork factory. On the day of the accident, which was two months and six days after his. employment, he was engaged in cleaning out what are called steam chests, or wooden boxes in…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Gbeen,
When the plaintiff received his injury his employment was simply that of cleaning some wooden boxes of sediment which had gathered in them, and emptying the contents on a cinder pile. He carried the sediment in buckets to an elevator on the same floor,'and thence descended by the elevator to the cellar, where he emptied the buckets on the cinder pile. He was not engaged in the working or handling of any machinery, and he therefore did not require any instructions for that class of work. He was originally engaged as a sweeper, afterwards at cutting corks in' the…
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