Kelley v. Silver Spring Bleaching & Dyeing Co.

This is a petition for the new trial of an action of the case for negligence resulting in the mutilation of the plaintiff’s hand. The action was tried to a jury-in this court, at the October Term, 1875. The testimony then submitted by the plaintiff was to the following effect, to wit:

The plaintiff was injured January 12, 1874. He then was, and for four years had' been, in the employ of the defendant corporation in its dye-house as a gig-tender. A gig is a machine consisting of two rollers, set in a frame, which are made to revolve by gears connected with the main shafting of the dye-house,…