Connors v. Merchants Manufacturing Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff on January 3,1902, while employed in the weaving room of the defendant’s cotton mill at Fall River. Writ dated January 20, 1902. At the trial in the Superior Court Lawton, J. ruled that the evidence was not sufficient to warrant a verdict for the plaintiff, and ordered a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtLorinq, J.
1. We are of opinion that the judge was right in ordering a verdict for the defendant.
The plaintiff was employed in the weaving room of the defendant’s cotton mill. She was injured while walking over a pair of wooden trap doors level with the floor, which covered the opening of a freight elevator well. These doors opened upward automatically when the elevator went up or down. The plaintiff was injured by the elevator’s starting up and throwing up and back the trap door on which she stepped. She was taken off her feet, flung on one side, and squeezed against the wall.
The plaintiff went to work…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hanlon v. ThompsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
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