Cote v. Jay Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Action on the case to recover damages for personal injuries received by plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant company. Verdict for plaintiff. Defendant filed motion for new trial and exceptions to certain rulings of presiding Justice. Case stated in opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCornish, J.
The plaintiff, a girl fourteen years of age, was injured on November 21, 1914, while in the defendant’s employ. She was working at the rear end of a machine called a planer, used in the manufacture of skewer sticks. This machine was equipped with two cylinders at the front, turning inward and carrying the stock, in shape like a lath, into the machine, with two cylinders near the center supplied with rapidly revolving knives, which cut and planed the stock, and with two cylinders at the rear, turning outward and delivering the finished sticks, in shape like a lead *302pencil, at the sorting table.…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Berdos v. Tremont & Suffolk MillsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Harvey v. . N.Y. Cent. Hudson R.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1882
- Chicago & Alton Railroad v. SullivanIllinois Supreme Court · 1872