Allen v. Jakel

The plaintiff, a girl of 14, was employed in the defendant’s paper mill, and was entirely without experience. Her first employment was in feeding paper into a mangle, and she worked with her sister, two persons being employed to feed the mangle. This mangle *485consisted of a large roller heated by steam, and above it three smaller rollers, between which and the larger roller the paper passed, and was removed at the back end of the machine, upon atable, coming out in sheets 10 or 12 yards long. After about two weeks’ experience in feeding the machine, during which she was repeatedly warned “not…