Manzi v. Washburn Wire Co.

This case is before the court on exceptions to “the decision of the Superior Court sustaining the defendant’s •demurrer to the declaration, said decision holding in substance "that the plaintiff, though without experience in operating the .machine in question, must be held to understand the danger .arising from being precipitated against a belt in motion; and “the possibility that a stick of wood in his hands upon which he is exerting muscular pressure may break under that pressure .and that such risks are obvious, and therefore assumed by the plaintiff.(1) The declaration is in trespass on…