Verdelli

The plaintiff was employed by the defendant in its box factory, and on October 5, 1893, was operating a planing machine, called a pony planer. While so engaged his hand was caught in the knives of the machine and was so injured that it had to be and was amputated. He brought this action to recover damages for his injuries and obtained a verdict for seven thousand five hundred dollars, on which judgment was entered. Upon motion for new trial the judgment was reduced to five'thousand dollars, and the motion denied. From the judgment as modified and the order refusing a new trial the defendant has appealed.

The facts alleged in the complaint may be briefly stated as follows: The plaintiff was a minor and was employed by the defendant in .its box factory. He was inexperienced in and ignorant of the dangers attending the operation of planing machines; and the defendant, knowing this, failed to warn him of the danger attending the operation of the machine (by which he was injured), or sufficiently or at all to instruct him how to operate it. The foreman of defendant, well knowing that plaintiff was a minor and inexperienced in the operation of planing machines, ordered him to operate…