Haines v. Spencer
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey. Before GRAY and BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judges, and ARCHBAFD, District Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHBALD, District Judge.
The plaintiff was injured by having her hand drawn into a mangle at which she was working. It was caught, as she says, by one of the towels which she was putting through the machine, which the wind, blowing in through the open window, wrapped around her hand before she knew it. It is possible that she was inattentive; as' the wind blew the towel away from her hand and not towards it. But that was for the jury. Her story is not so improbable that we can lay hold of it. The negligence charged is in not having a protecting guard bar, as well as means by which to promptly…
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