Keenan v. Waters
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 480, Jan. T., 1896, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1894, No. 252, on verdict for defendants. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Willson, J. At the trial it appeared that plaintiff claimed to recover $10,000 for personal injuries sustained by her on February 21, 1894, while in the employ of the defendants as a laundress in their steam laundry at the Windsor Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Appeal, No. 480, Jan. T., 1896, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1894, No. 252, on verdict for defendants. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Willson, J. At the trial it appeared that plaintiff claimed to recover $10,000 for personal injuries sustained by her on February 21, 1894, while in the employ of the defendants as a laundress in their steam laundry at the Windsor Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey. The. facts of the ease appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court gave binding instrubtions in favor of the defendants. Verdict and judgment for…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Fell,
This case belongs to an increasing class in which the attempt is practically to hold employers liable as insurers of the safety of their employees. The plaintiff was employed to work in a laundry connected with a hotel, and while engaged in operating a machine used for drying and ironing clothes, her hand was caught between the rollers and injured. The general grounds of negligence alleged were the failure to provide a reasonably safe machine, and the failure to inform the plaintiff of the danger incident to the operation of the machine by which she was injured. It…
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