Mercantile Laundry Co. v. Kearney
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Baltimore City Court (Sharp, J.), where there was a verdict and judgment thereon for plaintiff for' $2,000.
1Opinion of the CourtFowler, J.
This is another of the numerous actions brought to recover damages resulting from personal injury.
The plaintiff, a boy eighteen years of age, was in the employ of the Mercantile Laundry Company of Baltimore City. He had been driving the company’s wagon for some months, when on December 17th, 1900, he was employed to run certain machines in the laundry called wringers or extractors, which were used for the purpose of wringing or drying out the clothes. He had been engaged in this occupation four or five days when the accident happened.
It is unnecessary to minutely describe the machinery which…
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