Quinn v. Electric Laundry Co.

This is an action for damages by a young woman, employed by defendant corporation, who was severely injured while operating a mangle in defendant’s laundry. Judgment for twenty-five hundred dollars was given in favor of plaintiff. From the judgment and from the order denying a new trial this appeal is prosecuted.

It is alleged in the complaint that plaintiff, who was about nineteen years of age, was wholly unfamiliar with the operation of machinery; that she had been engaged by defendant as a “shaker out,” and that as such she was required to shake garments and prepare them for the mangling…