Leslie v. Proctor & Gamble Manufacturing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The plaintiff brought this action for damages sustained while in defendant’s employment by an injury to his hand. The petition alleged that in 1912, when plaintiff was a minor about seventeen years old, he was employed in defendant’s packing house; that while so employed he slipped and fell on a wet and oily floor and his hand was caught and crushed in a box-nailing machine; that the machine was defective, and had no fender or guard about it; and that it was practical to have such a guard. It was also alleged that in 1913 the defendant made…