Fontenot v. Raftery

This is a suit by a domestic servant, a washwoman, against her employer for damages. She alleges that she was employed to do domestic work including the family washing, and that she was required to hang the wash to dry on lines which had been strung across the yard prior to her employment; that one of the lines had been strung at so great a height above the ground that it was necessary for her to use either a chair or a small platform in order to reach it, and that defendant's wife had instructed her not to use a chair, and that this made it necessary that she step upon the platform; that the…