Ricks v. Boatwright

No cause of action is stated in a petition in which the plaintiff seeks to recover for injuries alleged to have been received by her (a nine-year-old child) when she went upon the premises of the defendant for the purpose of visiting a guest of the defendant’s motel, with the implied knowledge of the defendant, when she stuck her hand into the wringer attachment of an electrical washing machine which the defendant provided for the use of his motel guests and which the guest whom the plaintiff was visiting was operating, although it be alleged that the wringer was a dangerous, unguarded,…