Ducas v. International Cotton Mills

The plaintiff had been employed for three or four years as a doffer. His work was upon spinning frames, replacing full bobbins with empty ones. He tended six or seven frames of 112 bobbins each, making a complete change every forty-five to fifty minutes. The bobbins were carried in wooden boxes two feet long, one foot wide and eighteen inches high. There were alleys at the ends of the frames, eighteen inches to two feet wide, through which the doffers passed back and forth with these boxes. On either side of the alleys were gears, by means of which the speed of the machines was regulated from…