Churchill v. Woodruff
Indiana Court of Appeals
From Marion Superior Court (94,964); William W. Thornton, Judge. Action by Ruth Woodruff, by her next friend, Carrie Woodruff, against Omer T. Churchill and William Otto Jones, partners doing business under the firm name of Geneva Laundry. From a judgment for plaintiff, the defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Ibach, C. J. —
Appellee, a girl seventeen years of age, was injured while employed by appellants in their laundry by having her hand drawn into a mangle. This particular mangle was a machine consisting of a large cylinder and several small rolls set in a frame and so constructed that when in motion the large cylinder turned against and upon the smaller rolls which were placed at fixed intervals around it, the small rolls turning" in an opposite direction, giving the machine an intake feed of great' compression. On one side of the mangle, a short distance above the point of contact of the…
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- United States Cement Co. v. CooperIndiana Supreme Court · 1909
- Picken v. MillerIndiana Court of Appeals · 1915
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