Standard Knitting Mills v. Hickman

Jessie Hickman, a young woman aged eighteen years, was engaged in running a mangle or ironing machine in the mill of plaintiff in error, at the time she was injured. Her duties were to put unfinished underwear between heated rollers in the machine, and after a dozen garments were so placed, her duty was to go behind the machine, collect thé ironed garments that had passed through, and place them where they were to be further worked on by other employees.

While engaged in feeding the garments in the machine, she stood fronting the machine on a platform, *45which, was about four or five inches…