Brazeale v. Piedmont Manufacturing Co.

This is an action for damages, both actual and punitive, for personal injuries which the plaintiff, an employee of the defendant, claimed to have suffered in June, 1935, while working as a spinner in the company’s cotton' mill. She alleged :

“That while so engaged, a small steel ring or appliance known as a 'traveler’, by reason of being worn and defective, became disconnected from the machine, flew off and struck the plaintiff in her left eye, cutting, tearing and wounding same, and bringing about a diseased condition, and causing her much illness, pain and suffering and permanently affecting…