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Show PAYS (1000 A FINGER Appellate Court Refuses to Relieve Lead Pencil Company. SACRAMENTO, Cel.. Nov 5 -The Appellate . lUW tUU attlrnird the Judgment of the lower court In the oSS4 Of AJet Fries, by his guardian. guar-dian. Mary Frits, vs. the American Lead Pencil Pen-cil compans Thin was a Fresno county a- In which the Jury granted damages to the amount of $1.-ne.M $1.-ne.M to the plalntlfT. a nine-year-old boy, who. uhiie in the miio- ..f the defendant, lost two of his fingers by coming In contact with a circular aw. In their ..pinion th .lustier say. "If employers will old and abet haul.s and mercenary parents in taking llttla children chil-dren from tho playgrounds and th schoolroom school-room to place theni In factories and mills where dangerous machinery Is In operation, they can hardly expect courts to Indulge In nice discrimination touching the quantum of tare and caution to he exp.cted of such chll-dron." |