Zoulalian v. New England Sanatorium & Benevolent Ass'n
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant and at work upon a planer in a carpenter shop which'was a part of its plant, the declaration containing three counts, it being alleged in the first count that the injury to the plaintiff was caused by negligence of the defendant in permitting a buzz planer upon which the plaintiff was set to work to become defective and dangerous and the floor about it to be unsafe and dangerous, in the…
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Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant and at work upon a planer in a carpenter shop which'was a part of its plant, the declaration containing three counts, it being alleged in the first count that the injury to the plaintiff was caused by negligence of the defendant in permitting a buzz planer upon which the plaintiff was set to work to become defective and dangerous and the floor about it to be unsafe and dangerous, in the second count that the injury was caused by negligence of a fellow servant of the plaintiff, and in the third count that…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is an action for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant and at work on a buzz planer.
*105The defendant is a corporation organized “for the purpose of founding a hospital or charitable asylum . . . for the care and relief of indigent or other sick or infirm persons . . . and in no manner directly or indirectly for private .profit or dividend paying, to any one.” It is plain that the objects of the corporation being benevolent and charitable, it must be held to be a valid public charity. Conklin v. John Howard Industrial Home, 224 Mass. 222. Thornton…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- McDonald v. Massachusetts General HospitalMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
- New England Sanitarium v. Inhabitants of StonehamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
- Farrigan v. PevearMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
- Stuart v. West End Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
- Thornton v. Franklin Square HouseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
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