Booth v. Langley Mfg. Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Townsend, J., Aiken, April, 1897. Action by Billy Booth against the Bangley Manufacturing Co. Judgment of nonsuit occasioned by refusal of Judge to permit complaint to be amended during trial.
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Before Townsend, J., Aiken, April, 1897. Action by Billy Booth against the Bangley Manufacturing Co. Judgment of nonsuit occasioned by refusal of Judge to permit complaint to be amended during trial. Plaintiff appeals on following exceptions: I. Because it appears from the evidence that in the course of the work allotted to the plaintiff to perform, the threads were accustomed to get broken, and when such was the case the plaintiff was compelled, in the discharge of her work, to go and get help to assist her to put up her threads, and in so doing it was necessary for her to pass by the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chiee Justice McIver.
The plaintiff, a little girl about nine years of age, brought this action to recover damages for certain injuries sustained by her, while employed as an operative in the cotton factory of defendant company, occasioned by the alleged negligence of said company. In her complaint, she alleges that, while employed as an operative upon certain spinning frames, she sustained the damages complained of, by reason of the fact that defendant had negligently provided for her use spinning frames without caps or other suitable appliances to…
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