Sheehan

This action was brought by plaintiff, a minor, aged thirteen years, through his guardian ad litem, to recover damages for personal injuries claimed to have resulted from the negligence of defendant in furnishing plaintiff insecure and unsafe appliances with which to perform the work to which he was assigned, and in requiring him to do certain dangerous and hazardous work concerning which he had had no experience or knowledge, without instructing him as to the dangers incident to the work and the dangerous character of the machinery and appliances. The case was tried before a jury, and a verdict rendered for plaintiff in the sum of $1,000. Defendant made a motion for a new trial, which was denied, and this appeal is from the order denying the motion, and from the judgment.

Defendant claims that the judge before whom the trial was proceeding publicly denounced him through certain articles in three leading newspapers of San Francisco, and thus injured him and his defense in the eyes of the jury. The facts that led up to the publication of the articles in the papers may be briefly stated as follows: The plaintiff was employed by defendant to polish telephone boxes by holding them…