McGuerty v. Hale
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, a boy eighteen years old, while in the defendant’s employ, by having his arm caught in a machine upon which he was working, on October 4, T884. Writ dated October 3, 1890. At the trial* in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., the jury returned a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
It appears that “the plaintiff called as an expert one Robinson, and asked him this question : 6 Should you consider that a boy eighteen years old, a short boy like the plaintiff here, was a proper person to put to work on such a machine as that before you? ’ ” The court excluded the question. This was right: the question was not one for an expert to answer.
The plaintiff’s counsel also asked Edwards, a witness for the plaintiff, concerning Egan, a second band in the defendant’s rubber factory, “What should you call him, Mr. Edwards?” The court excluded the question, but said to the…
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