Millen v. Caldwell

Marshall, Presiding Justice.

In her job as a housekeeper for Holiday Inn, the appellant, Gwendolyn A. Millen, was required to wear a uniform. All but one of the three uniforms her employer had supplied her with had gotten so ragged that her supervisor would not let her wear them. Since she had no dryer at home, it became her practice to wash her one usable uniform at home and dry it in the commercial dryer that the employer maintained for drying the hotel’s sheets. There was evidence, though contradicted, that her supervisor knew of this practice, had not objected to it, had even given her…