Davis v. Muscogee Manufacturing Co.

Davis sued the Muscogee Manufacturing Company for damages, alleging that he was in the employment of the defendant to clean and wash window-glass in the defendant’s factory, and while he was so engaged, the engineer, or some other employee of the defendant operating the engine of the factory, without warning to the plaintiff and without his knowledge, turned on the steam from the engine, or other appliance of the defendant, so carelessly and negligently that the water and steam went outside of the factory to the window plaintiff was washing, and thereby, without any fault on his part, scalded…