Highfill Ex Rel. Loving v. Washington Mills Co.

The plaintiff was a “doffer boy” about 15 years of age, working for defendant, when the injury for which this action is .instituted occurred. He testified, in part, as follows: “A doffer gets bobbins they put on a spindle and when they get full you have to take them off and replace them with empty bobbins and carry the full ones to the winding room so they can be wound. It was my job to take them off as doffer and put them in a box. A wooden box had a place at each end to put the bobbins in, and in the middle you put the empty box to doff in. You slide the box off and put another on and go…