Bledsoe v. Bostic Lumber & Mfg. Co.

Citations

• 113 Miss. 118
• 73 So. 881

Syllabus

<p>1. Infants. Child labor law. Application.</p> <p>Section 9, chapter 165, Laws 1912, declaring that the provisions of this act shall apply only to manufacturing establishments engaged in manufacturing or working in cotton, wool or other fabrics and the canneries and manufacturing establishments where children are employed indoors at work injurious to health, or in operating dangerous machinery, but shall not apply to fruit canneries, applies to employment of children in operating dangerous machinery in other manufacturing than those first enumerated, but does not prohibit their employment therein in other service.</p> <p>•2. Same.</p> <p>Under this act an infant employed as a sweeper in a factory, is not employed in operating dangerous machinery, within the meaning of the act, because he sweeps around machinery, it not being necessary to a proper operation thereof that he sweep while the machinery is in -operation.</p>