Thomas v. Proctor & Gamble Manufacturing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered- by •

Mason, J.:

Daisy Thomas, an employee of the Proctor & Gamble Manufacturing Company, about 17 years of age, recovered a judgment against her employer under the workmen’s compensation law, and the defendant appeals.

The principal question involved is whether the plaintiff’s injury was one arising out of and in the course of her employment. A suggestion is made that it did not result from accident, but the occurrence relied upon seems clearly to fall within the definition of that term. The evidence in behalf of the plaintiff tended to show these facts:…