McCafferty v. Lewando's French Dyeing & Cleansing Co.

The plaintiff was employed by the defendant at one o’clock in the afternoon on the eighteenth day of May, 1903, and between five and six o’clock of the same day she met with the accident here complained of.

She was set to work with other girls mending curtains, in a room some forty feet by thirty or thirty-five feet. Towards five o’clock she felt thirsty, and having seen two other' girls get a drink of water from a tank, or a pipe running into a tank, she went with two fellow employees to get a drink herself and fell into a hole between the tank and the floor. The tank was nine feet in height…