Boyd v. Taylor
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received on October 30,1901, while in the employ of the defendants, manufacturers of sausages doing business in Boston under the name of Park’s Sausage and Provision Company, and caused by the plaintiff’s hand being drawn into a meat chopping machine which he was operating. Writ dated April 14, 1903. The case first was tried in the Superior Court before Bell, J., who at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence ordered a verdict for the defendants.
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Tort for personal injuries received on October 30,1901, while in the employ of the defendants, manufacturers of sausages doing business in Boston under the name of Park’s Sausage and Provision Company, and caused by the plaintiff’s hand being drawn into a meat chopping machine which he was operating. Writ dated April 14, 1903. The case first was tried in the Superior Court before Bell, J., who at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence ordered a verdict for the defendants. Exceptions alleged by the plaintiff were sustained by this court in a decision reported in 195 Mass. 272. The second trial…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
This case has been here twice on its merits upon the plaintiff’s exceptions to verdicts directed in the Superior Court in favor of the defendants, and the exceptions have been sustained each time. 195 Mass. 272; 202 Mass. 213. Now it comes up on the defendants’ exceptions, the jury having found a verdict for the plaintiff. No new question of law is presented. The testimony in its fundamental aspects is the same now as before. In the respects in which it differs only questions of fact are presented touching the credibility of witnesses or the weight of evidence. As to these matters the verdict…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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