Morancy v. Hennessey
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Trespass on the Case for negligence. Heard on petition of plaintiff for new trial, and petition denied.
1Opinion of the CourtEogers, J.
This is the plaintiff’s petition for a' new trial in an action on the case for negligence after a nonsuit in the Common Pleas Division.
On January 22, 1900, the plaintiff, a girl seventeen years old lacking one month and three days, was injured by having her right hand drawn between the rollers, or cylinders, of a mangle she was tending while working for the defendants in their steam laundry.
According to the plaintiff’s testimony she went to work for the defendants the first part of August, 1899, to fold and shake out clothes, there being a place vacant there for doing that work. For five or…
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