Zachert v. City of Louisville

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

The appellant, Elsie Zachert, while employed as a servant at the Louisville City Hospital, an eleemosynary institution established and maintained by the appellee, city of Louisville, sustained numerous painful and permanent injuries to her face, head and other parts of her body, whereby she was disfigured and maimed for life, by the explosion of the boiler or drum of a steam sterilizer located in and used by the hospital, which explosion resulted, as claimed by the appellant, from the opening by her of the door to the boiler or drum of the…