93 N.J.L. 174 | N.J. | 1919
The opinion of the court was delivered by
This action is brought by a father for pecuniary loss to him caused by an injury to -his minor son, a lad sixteen years of age. The son was in the employ of the defendant, to whose negligence the injury is attributed.
When the plaintiff, in the present case, permitted liis son to work for the defendant without giving the notice which he might have given, he accepted the provisions of the statute and thereby surrendered his right to any other method or form of compensation.
The judgment must he reversed, to the end that there may he a venire de novo.
For affirmance — Hone.
For reversal — The Chancellor, Chief Justice, Sivayze, Tren ciiaed, Parker, Bergen, Kalisch, White, Heppenheimer, Williams, Gardner, JJ. 11.