American Tobacco Co. v. Strickling
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City (Harlan, C.' J.). At the trial the plaintiff offered the following prayers: Plaintiff’s 1st Prayer. — That it was the duty of the defendant to exercise ordinary care to provide a reasonably safe place in which the female plaintiff might perform the service which she was employed to perform for said defendant. — (Granted.) Plaintiff’s 2d Prayer. — If the jury find under all the circumstances testified to in the case,…
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City (Harlan, C.' J.). At the trial the plaintiff offered the following prayers: Plaintiff’s 1st Prayer. — That it was the duty of the defendant to exercise ordinary care to provide a reasonably safe place in which the female plaintiff might perform the service which she was employed to perform for said defendant. — (Granted.) Plaintiff’s 2d Prayer. — If the jury find under all the circumstances testified to in the case, that the defendant in requiring the female plaintiff, under her employment as testified to in this case, to sweep the floor…
1Opinion of the CourtBoyd, J.
The appellee, Jessie May Strickling, was employed by the American Tobacco Company, the appellant, in one of its factories in Baltimore, and whilst engaged in her regular work was seriously injured by reason, as she claims, of the negligence of the company. When she first went into the company’s employ in January, 1897, she worked on a sieve — putting tobacco in a sieve — but her employment was subsequently changed to sweeping the floors of the factory, and she was so engaged in May, 1897, when she was injured. Amongst other places she was required to sweep was a room in which there was a…
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