Roussel v. Nashua Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for negligence. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant had accepted the provisions of the employers' liability act. The plaintiff was taking down a large and complicated machine known as a card when he was injured. It consisted of a series of rolls and cylinders driven at different speeds by a complicated system of pulleys, belts and gears.
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Case, for negligence. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant had accepted the provisions of the employers' liability act. The plaintiff was taking down a large and complicated machine known as a card when he was injured. It consisted of a series of rolls and cylinders driven at different speeds by a complicated system of pulleys, belts and gears. The power was transmitted to the machine by a belt which ran over a pulley on one end of a cylinder which weighed eight or nine hundred pounds. The pulleys which drove the different parts of the machine were on the other end of…
1Opinion of the CourtYoung, J.
The defendants contend that it cannot be found, (1) that they were in fault, (2) that the plaintiff was free from fault, (3) that he was acting within the scope of his employment, or (4.) that he did not assume the risk of his injury.
It is the duty of an employer to notify inexperienced employees of all the dangers of the employment of which he either knows or would have known if he had used ordinary care for their safety, and of which they neither know nor are in fault for not knowing. Chabot v. Company, 78 N. H. 614; Olney v. Railroad, 71 N. H. 427.
Although the plaintiff knew the card would…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Boody v. K. & C. Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1914
- Olney v. Boston & Maine RailroadSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1902
- Graham v. WeberSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1920
- Weeks v. Cushman-Rankin Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1915
- Martel v. White MillsSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1920
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- Ducas v. International Cotton MillsSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1925
- Evans v. FosterSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1948
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