Saucier v. New Hampshire Spinning Mills
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for personal injuries alleged to have been received by reason of the defendants’ failure to furnish a reasonably safe carding machine and to instruct or warn the plaintiff. Trial by jury and verdict for the defendants. Transferred from the April term, .1902, of the superior court by Peaslee, J. The plaintiff is a deaf mute and a skillful operator of machines known as revolving-top flat cards.
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Case, for personal injuries alleged to have been received by reason of the defendants’ failure to furnish a reasonably safe carding machine and to instruct or warn the plaintiff. Trial by jury and verdict for the defendants. Transferred from the April term, .1902, of the superior court by Peaslee, J. The plaintiff is a deaf mute and a skillful operator of machines known as revolving-top flat cards. At the time of his employment he informed the defendants that he was familiar with such cards and was an experienced stripper, and he was hired as such. He had worked for the defendants about a…
1Opinion of the CourtBingham, J.
1. One of the grounds upon which the plaintiff relied at the trial to establish the defendants’ negligence was that
the door to the cylinder of the machine upon which he was working had no fastening device upon it to keep it closed, and might have been thrown open by a thick place in the lap which he was-putting through the machine when the accident occurred, and that-he did not know of this alleged danger and was not instructed or warned in respect to it.
In answer to this claim, the defendants were permitted to show by their witness Gould that he had made experiments on the same-machine since…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Hill v. Portland & Rochester RailroadSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1867
- Congdon v. Howe Scale Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1894
3Cited by13 opinions
- Stocker v. Boston & Maine RailroadSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1928
- Lacoss v. LebanonSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1917
- State v. ThorpSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1934
- Beckley v. AlexanderSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1914
- Perreault v. Allen Oil Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1935
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