Hayes v. Richmond Hosiery Mills
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Wright. Walker superior court. November 13, 1913. The plaintiff, a boy of fourteen years, who had been reared on a farm and was without experience as to machinery, was employed at the defendant’s factory.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Wright. Walker superior court. November 13, 1913. The plaintiff, a boy of fourteen years, who had been reared on a farm and was without experience as to machinery, was employed at the defendant’s factory. He alleged: that his duties under this employment were to stir hosiery with a stick in dye-kettles, about which employment there was no danger; that he so worked for about four days; that then he was removed by Miller (the defendant’s superintendent and vice-principal, to whose orders he was subject) from the dye-kettles to a machine known as an extractor or…
1Per curiam
The petition with the amendment thereto set forth a cause of action as against the demurrer filed by the defendant, and the court erred in dismissing the same.
Judgment reversed.
All the Justices concur, except Fish, O. J., absent. W. U. Payne, for plaintiff. Watkins & Watkins and B. M. W. Glenn, for defendant.
2Cited by1 opinion
- Richmond Hosiery Mills v. HayesSupreme Court of Georgia · 1916