SCOTT v. THOR CORP.


283 A.D. 832 (1954)

Dennis R. Scott, an Infant, by Raymond Scott, His Guardian ad Litem, Appellant, v. Thor Corporation, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

March 24, 1954.


The infant plaintiff was injured when his arm was caught in the rollers of a wringer attached to an electric washing machine. The machine had been purchased from a previous owner for $25 by infant's mother about six months before the accident. There was no proof of its age. The machine was equipped with a horizontal chrome plate set directly above the wringer which, when struck, would release the rollers so that they would spread apart. On the day of the accident the mother...

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