Capital Laundry Co. v. McRoy's Guardian

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming.

Pay McRoy, in whose behalf this action is prosecuted by her statutory guardian, became seventeen years of age in January, 1917. She was employed to operate a handkerchief mangle by defendant, now appellant, in January, 1918, and while so engaged about -a month later was permanently injured by having her hands caught and horribly burned between the rollers of the mangle.

The defendant concedes there was sufficient evidence of causal negligence upon its part to carry that question to the jury and that same was properly submitted by the instructions,…