Ponta v. New Bedford Cordage Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on May 26, 1911, from her right hand being drawn into the feed rolls of a picker machine in the defendant’s rope factory in New Bed-ford, when, after having been employed at other work in the defendant’s factory for about two months, she was for the first time set at work on the machine.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on May 26, 1911, from her right hand being drawn into the feed rolls of a picker machine in the defendant’s rope factory in New Bed-ford, when, after having been employed at other work in the defendant’s factory for about two months, she was for the first time set at work on the machine. Writ dated March 18, 1912. , In the Superior Court the case was tried before Dana, J. At the close of the evidence, which is described in the opinion, the plaintiff waived the fourth count of her declaration, which alleged that the injuries were caused by…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
The plaintiff, while in the defendant’s employ, was injured by her right hand being drawn into the feed rolls of a picker machine. This machine consisted in part of a wooden trough or platform behind which the operator stands, and was about two feet, ten inches high from the floor and about two feet, seven or eight inches deep from the end where the operator stands to the inner edge near the feed rolls; the width of the trough at the end nearest to the rolls was nineteen inches. When the machine is in operation hemp is piled upon the trough or platform and fed into two rolls situated at the…
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- Ryan v. Fall River Iron Works Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Wheeler v. Wason Manufacturing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
- De Costa v. Hargraves MillsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898
- Joyce v. American Writing Paper Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
- Glass v. Hazen Confectionery Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
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