Jennings v. Tamaker Corp.

Plaintiff was an employee of Chatham Food Market at Southgate in Wayne County during the early months of 1968. The food market owned a cardboard baling machine which it had purchased from defendant Great Lakes Enterprises, Inc., a distributing company for defendant Tamaker Corporation. It was the policy of the food market not to permit persons under the age of 18 to operate the baling machine. In January, 1968, plaintiff turned 18 and was thereafter permitted to operate the machine. In January, 1968, a fellow employee of plaintiff suffered an injury when the door of the baling machine closed…