Robinson v. Melville Manufacturing Co.

The plaintiff, a boy of 14, was employed as a “doffer” in the cotton mill at Gherryville, N. 0. At night, on 8 May,. 1913, while engaged in doffing, he stooped over to pick up empty bobbins, whereupon Tom Carpenter, a youth of 15 or 16 years-of age and a coemployee in the same mill, slipped up behind him, as he was in a stooped position, and, placing the nozzle of a rubber hose carrying compressed air at a pressure of 120 pounds to the square inch near the rectum of the plaintiff, pressed the valve on the end of the nozzle and thus released the compressed air, which entered his rectum with…