Haggblom v. Winslow Brothers & Smith Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, brought by the plaintiff through his next friend, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff by reason of his hand getting caught in the machinery of a glue machine while in the employ of the defendant, with two counts, the first at common law, alleging a failure of the defendant to furnish safe appliances, machines and instrumentalities and a safe and proper place in which to work, and the second under the employers’ liability act.
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Tort, brought by the plaintiff through his next friend, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff by reason of his hand getting caught in the machinery of a glue machine while in the employ of the defendant, with two counts, the first at common law, alleging a failure of the defendant to furnish safe appliances, machines and instrumentalities and a safe and proper place in which to work, and the second under the employers’ liability act. Writ dated August 28,1905. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Hardy, J. The plaintiff introduced evidence tending to show that the…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
In our opinion this case should have been submitted to the jury.
The platform over which the plaintiff was called to go to and fro in doing his work was not only slippery from glue which apparently had been spilled upon it, but the risk of tripping and falling thereon was increased by the fact that there was a hole in the platform where there was a broken cleat or a piece was broken out. This platform was in separate pieces, each composed of long cleats nailed about an inch apart from each other. These pieces were taken up every night, and put down sometimes in interchanged order and reversed…
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