Corcoran v. Wanamaker
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 12, Jan. T., 1898, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1896, No. 925, refusing to take off nonsuit. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. At the trial it appeared that the plaintiff, a girl eighteen years old, was employed in the defendants’ laundry as a plain ironer. There was evidence that the defendants used in' their laundry oxalic and sulphuric acids and chloride of lime.
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Appeal, No. 12, Jan. T., 1898, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1896, No. 925, refusing to take off nonsuit. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. At the trial it appeared that the plaintiff, a girl eighteen years old, was employed in the defendants’ laundry as a plain ironer. There was evidence that the defendants used in' their laundry oxalic and sulphuric acids and chloride of lime. Plaintiff claimed that about three months after her first employment, she was set at work over a hot mangle; that she temporarily returned to plain ironing; that she…
1Opinion of the Court
Pee Curiam,
There is no evidence that the defendants had any knowledge that the use of the acids complained of would produce the disease from which the plaintiff suffered, and there was no proof that it was not customary to use acids in laundries in the same manner and proportions as they were used in the laundry business conducted by the- defendants. The case was therefore destitute of the evidence necessary to establish the charge of negligence without which there could be no recovery.
Judgment affirmed.
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