Dougherty v. Dobson

Citations

• 214 Pa. 252
• 63 A. 748
• 1906 Pa. LEXIS 637

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Infant—Dangerous machinery.</p> <p>Where a boy thirteen years old employed in a cotton mill for the sole purpose of removing bobbins when machinery is at rest, is suddenly directed by the foreman of the mill to remove cotton threads which had blown into moving cogwheels, and the moving cogs draw the boy’s hand into the machinery after he had taken hold of the threads, the question of the employer’s negligence and the boy’s contributory negligence is for the jury, and a verdict and judgment for the boy will be sustained, and this is the case although placards in the mill forbade employees under penalty of dismissal to clean machinery while in motion.</p>