Harris v. Lily-White Laundry, Inc.

McCALEB, Judge.

The plaintiff, Bertha Harris, a colored woman, brought this suit for compensation for 100 weeks against her employer, Lily-White Laundry, Inc., alleging that on November 14, 1936, while she was engaged in the performance of her duties as table girl in the defendant’s establishment, an argument took place between a fellow employee named, Lacey Branch and herself, as a result of which the former struck her on the left side of her face with a pressing iron. She averred that, as a consequence of the accident, she suffered a severe gash on the left side of her face extending from…