Poirier v. Venus Shoe Manufacturing Co.

The plaintiff, a shoe factory employee, sustained personal injuries, under circumstances which, she alleges, entitle her to damages from the corporate defendant, her employer.

The theory of this action is a failure, sounding in negligence, *101and amounting to a lack, on the part of the defendant, of the exercise of ordinary care to keep a certain sewing machine in a reasonably safé and reasonably suitable condition for use.

On November 26, 1937, plaintiff was about to begin her daily work of running the machine.

She contends that repeated movement of the machine needle, first down and then up,…