Burke v. Davis

This is an action of tort brought under R. L. c. 106, § 71, to recover damages for injuries received by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant and engaged in feeding sheets through a steam mangle for the purpose of drying and smoothing them. The action is based on the alleged negligence of the defendant in placing the guard blade in front of the rollers of the mangle too high, so that the plaintiff’s hand passed under it, and was caught between the rollers and seriously injured.

The plaintiff was seventeen years old at the time of the accident. She had been at work for the…