Atlanta Cotton Factory Co. v. Speer
Supreme Court of Georgia
Master and Servant. Damages. Negligence. Before Judge Clark. City Court of Atlanta. June Term, 1881. Hester Speer, by her mother as next friend, brought, suit against the-Atlanta Cotton Factory Company to recover'for an injury received by her by falling through an opening prepared by the company for an elevator. On the trial, the evidence showed, in brief, the following facts: The factory was under the general management of a superintendent named Harris.
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Master and Servant. Damages. Negligence. Before Judge Clark. City Court of Atlanta. June Term, 1881. Hester Speer, by her mother as next friend, brought, suit against the-Atlanta Cotton Factory Company to recover'for an injury received by her by falling through an opening prepared by the company for an elevator. On the trial, the evidence showed, in brief, the following facts: The factory was under the general management of a superintendent named Harris. Each department under him was in charge of a “ boss,” and in each room there were two overseers, one of whom had charge during the day, the…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
The controlling question made in this case is, whether a minor girl, just fifteen, can recover from a manufacturing company damages for a fall through an unprotected hole made for an elevator during its construction, when she was left Sunday morning at three o’clock in an unlocked room within five feet of the elevator, by orders of the boss over the room where she and other girls worked, it being the custom of the company to keep the girls at work Sunday morning to that hour, and to allow them to remain in the factory until daylight to go home.
The charge of the court…
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