Barber v. George R. Jones Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
This is the same case reported in 79 N. H. 311. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred by Kivel, C. J., from the May term, 1920, of the superior court' on defendant’s exception to the denial of its motions for a nonsuit and a directed verdict on the ground that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
In addition to the facts reported in the former transfer of the case (79 N. H. 311) there was evidence that the plaintiff admitted he paid little attention to the operation of the machine when he approached it and while he stood at the end of it engaged in conversation with the workman who was using it; that he was then two or three inches from the machine; that he felt the wind caused by the blower blowing the sleeve of his jumper but did not know where it came from, or that it was liable to blow his sleeve into the machine and draw his arm onto the revolving knives on that end of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Barber Ex Rel. Barber v. George R. Jones Shoe Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1919