Van Pelt v. City of Louisville

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirm-. ing.

The appellant and plaintiff below, Mrs. Yerna Yan Pelt, who was 25 years of age, was employed in the laundry of the city hospital of the appellee and defendant below, city of Louisville. She was at work at a machine for ironing the laundry, used chiefly by nurses, physicians, and attendants, and for bedding equipment in the operation of the hospital. The small amount of outside laundry work done therein was for the benefit of other city public undertakings, mostly, if not entirely, of towels used at public parks. Plaintiff fed the ironing table…