Kilkeary v. Thackery

Citations

• 165 Pa. 584
• 30 A. 1013
• 1895 Pa. LEXIS 1049

Syllabus

<p>Negligence—Master and servant—Infant—Contributory Negligence—■ Dangerous machine.</p> <p>In an action by a girl thirteen years of age against her employer to recover damages for personal injuries, the questions of defendant’s negligence and plaintiff’s contributory negligence are for the jury, where there is evidence that plaintiff was engaged to run towels through a mangle for a laundry; that defendant ordered her to wax the cylinder of the mangle without giving her any instructions how to do it; that the step of the treadle' was off, thereby rendering the machine more difficult to stop, and that plaintiff’s hand was caught in the machine and injured.</p>