Ahern v. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for negligence. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the January term, 1908, of the superior court by Plummer, J., on the defendants’ exceptions to the denial of their motions for a nonsuit and the direction of a verdict in their favor. The evidence tended to prove the following facts: The plaintiff was injured on December 26, 1905, in the defendants’ finishing room where she was employed.
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Case, for negligence. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the January term, 1908, of the superior court by Plummer, J., on the defendants’ exceptions to the denial of their motions for a nonsuit and the direction of a verdict in their favor. The evidence tended to prove the following facts: The plaintiff was injured on December 26, 1905, in the defendants’ finishing room where she was employed. She was intelligent, thirty-seven years old, and had been employed in the same room for eighteen months prior to the accident, during which period she had worked in the room…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
The defendants adopted for the illumination of the plaintiff’s work-place a system of lighting commonly in use for such purposes so far as appears, perfect of its kind, but subject to occasional interruptions. They provided the proper means for restoring the action of the system when such interruptions should occur and a competent person to make the necessary repair. If it be conceded that it could be found it was the duty of the defendants to provide and have in operation a sufficient number of other systems of lighting, so that by no possibility could the work-place fail to be sufficiently…
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