Case Name: WILLIAM BLONSKI, BY NEXT FRIEND, v. THE AMERICAN ENAMELED BRICK AND TILE COMPANY
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1905-06-12
Citations: 72 N.J.L. 409
Docket Number: 
Parties: WILLIAM BLONSKI, BY NEXT FRIEND, v. THE AMERICAN ENAMELED BRICK AND TILE COMPANY.
Judges: Before Justices Dixon, Garrison and Swayze.
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 72
Pages: 409–410

Head Matter:
WILLIAM BLONSKI, BY NEXT FRIEND, v. THE AMERICAN ENAMELED BRICK AND TILE COMPANY.
Submitted March 24, 1905
Decided June 12, 1905.
A declaration in tort, filed by a next friend on behalf of an infant, which alleges in its commencement that the next friend complains, and in its conclusion that the tort was “to the damage of the next friend,” will be struck out as irregular.
On motion to strike out declaration.
Before Justices Dixon, Garrison and Swayze.
For the plaintiff, George 8. Silzer.
For the defendant, McCarter, Williamson & McCarter.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dixon, J.
The defendant moves to strike out the declaration in this case because of its duplicity and irregularity.
The plaintiff, an infant, sues to recover compensation for an injury received by him while in the defendant's service. It sets forth several particulars in which it is claimed the defendant failed to discharge its duty to the plaintiff, and on this fact the charge of duplicity rests. But we are inclined to think that this charge is not sustained, because the declaration seems to represent the several delinquencies of the defendant as concurrent agencies operating in combination to bring about the accident by which the plaintiff was injured, thus, in effect, constituting a single culpable cause.
But the declaration should be struck out for irregularity. According to its terms it is the next friend, and not the infant, who complains, and his complaint is that the infant was injured "to the damage of said plaintiff, as guardian and next friend as aforesaid, ten thousand dollars, and therefore he brings his suit as aforesaid," &c.
In regular form, the declaration should show that the infant complained and that the injury suffered was to his damage.
The motion to strike out is allowed, with costs.