Beck v. Standard Cotton Mills

The facts of this case are very similar to those related in Canton Cotton Mills v. Edwards, 120 Ga. 447. The plaintiff was a boy ten years old, employed to work in the defendant’s cotton factory at night, as a sweeper. Pie had temporarily gone from the room in which he should have been into the adjoining room, where it was customary for him to hang his coat and lunch pail. While unnecessarily — let it be conceded — passing one of the machines, he saw a lap of cotton rolling out and dropping to the floor; and, unconscious of the danger in so doing, he picked up the cotton and attempted to…