Fondern v. Dept. of Rehabilitation & Correction

These matters involve the appeal of a judgment of the Court of Claims which awarded the plaintiff the sum of $1,800 as compensation for injuries sustained by the plaintiff, an inmate of the Columbus Correctional Medical Center, who had at the time of the injury been operating a steam clothes press in the laundry room of that institution.

The facts show that the plaintiff on the date in question was operating the press that was controlled by two buttons which, under normal operating conditions, would have to be depressed simultaneously with both hands in order to bring the top or head of the…