Day v. Achron

(Dissenting.) I cannot assent to this opinion. The plaintiff, who was only sixteen years of age, was employed in the latter part of April, 1897, by the defendant, to work in a laundry. At first she was directed to run a sleeve-ironer, which, according to her testimony, was the work she was hired to do. Subsequently she was occasionally db rected to run a machine called a mangle, which she did a few times, for brief periods — an hour or so at a time — and on the 18th day of June, .1897, she was seriously injured by having her hand drawn into and crushed by said machine. The function of the…