Silva v. Davis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received on August 7,1902, while employed in the defendants’ wood working mill in that part of Boston called East Boston. Writ dated August 21, 1902. At the trial in the Superior Court before SiteTieoek, J. there was evidence in regard to the employment of the plaintiff and the happening of the accident, which is described in the opinion. One John J. Davis was called as a witness by the defendants, and qualified as an expert.
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Tort for personal injuries received on August 7,1902, while employed in the defendants’ wood working mill in that part of Boston called East Boston. Writ dated August 21, 1902. At the trial in the Superior Court before SiteTieoek, J. there was evidence in regard to the employment of the plaintiff and the happening of the accident, which is described in the opinion. One John J. Davis was called as a witness by the defendants, and qualified as an expert. On his cross-examination he was asked the following question: “ Holding the piece of timber when you are doing edge planing against the knife…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
There was evidence which would have war*49ranted the jury in finding that one of the defendants directed one Marshall to take the plaintiff, and go to work on a machine known as a buzz planer, and plane out some door frames. The plaintiff was eighteen or nineteen years old, and was hired as “a lumper” at $5 a week and had worked round the shop about three weeks, helping, tying up bundles of sheathing, piling lumber, sweeping and running errands. He never had worked on the planer before, or, as he testified, seen it in operation, and was uninstructed in regard to working upon it. Marshall picked…
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