Spencer v. Haines

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Ci-iiee Justice.

Lizzie A. Spencer, the principal plaintiff, had her hand injured in a laundry mangle in the Hotel St. Charles, in Atlantic City, owned by the defendant. She was in his employ and had been using the mangle for several weeks prior to the time of the accident. The case made by her at the trial was that a guardrail on the mangle, designed as a protection to the operator, had been bent and out of repair during her whole user of the machine; that she requested the engineer of the defendant to repair it; that he agreed to do só and…