Downey v. Sawyer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by a carding machine while in the defendants’ employ. Trial in the Superior Court, before Fessenden, J., who, after the plaintiff had put in his evidence, directed a verdict for the defendants; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
When the injury was received, the plaintiff was in his sixteenth year, and of ordinary intelligence and capacity. He had worked for six weeks in a wool-carding room, four weeks feeding wool to the first breakers, and then as a spare hand, assisting other boys in putting in ends, taking off spools, and in other ways. One of these boys had received an injury on the day before the plaintiff was hurt, and he was ordered to take his place. This required him to attend to taking off spools of partially carded wool from the side drawing apparatus of the first breaker, place them in a box, and, when…
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