Richmond Hosiery Mills v. Hayes

In his petition the plaintiff alleged the following: He was a boy of 15 years, had been reared on a farm, was without experience as to machinery, and was employed at the defendant’s factory. His duties were to stir hosiery with a stick in dye-*241kettles, about which employment there was no danger. He was engaged in this work for about four days, when he was removed by defendant’s superintendent and vice-principal from this work to a machine known as a hydro extractor or whizzer, operated for drying hosiery in the course of its manufacture. This machine was composed of a metal receptacle upon…