Sims v. . Lindsay
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil aotioh for damages for an injury caused the plaintiff by the alleged negligence of defendants, and the unsafe and defective condition of a “mangle,” at which plaintiff was employed to work, tried before Timberlake, J., and a jury at July, 1897, Special Term of Buncombe Superior Court. The testimony was as follows : The plaintiff testified : • “I have lived in Asheville for five years. Am 14 years old now, and was 13 when niy hand was hurt.
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Civil aotioh for damages for an injury caused the plaintiff by the alleged negligence of defendants, and the unsafe and defective condition of a “mangle,” at which plaintiff was employed to work, tried before Timberlake, J., and a jury at July, 1897, Special Term of Buncombe Superior Court. The testimony was as follows : The plaintiff testified : • “I have lived in Asheville for five years. Am 14 years old now, and was 13 when niy hand was hurt. I worked at Biltmore one week for defendants, who were operating a steam laundry. They washed and ironed, and did general laundry work. When I went…
1Opinion of the Court
Clark, J.:
The plaintiff, who sues by her next friend, was a girl 13 years of age at the time of the injury, whose hand was mashed in the rollers of a mangle in a steam laundry, necessitating the amputation of the fingers of the hand. It was in evidence that the defendant had admitted that the accident was caused by the guard having been taken off, and that he knew it was off that morning when the girl went to work.
At the close of the evidence, the defendant demurred under the Act of 1897, Chapter 109, “on the ground that the plaintiff’s testimony showed she had been guilty of contributory…
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