Hendrix v. Cotton Mills.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by Leandrix Hendrix by bis next friend, L. S. Hendrix against tbe Cooleemee Cotton Mills, beard by Judge G. M. Cooke and a jury at tbe Eall Term, 1904, of tbe Superior Court of Davie County. Tbe plaintiff sued to recover damages for an injury received while going up on a freight elevator of tbe defendant’s mill. From a judgment in favor of tbe plaintiff, tbe defendant appealed. ,
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
All the evidence tended to prove that the plaintiff at the time of the injury was a boy twelve years of age; that he was a floor sweeper at the defendant’s mill and occasionally helped Pink Poster take small boxes of quills on the freight elevator up to the third story spinning room, and had used it ten or twelve times. The plaintiff gives the following account of the injury: “The day I got hurt, Pink Poster came to me to help him take up the quills for the weaving room. I told him I would do it if the boss man said so. Poster went off to -see the boss and when he came back, in consequence of…
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