Stone v. Boscawen Mills
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendants’ failure to properly instruct and warn the plaintiff as to the dangers of his employment. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the April term, 1901, of the superior court by Peaslee, J. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to prove the following facts: The accident happened June 4, 1900, when the plaintiff was fifteen years and six months old.
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Case, for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendants’ failure to properly instruct and warn the plaintiff as to the dangers of his employment. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the April term, 1901, of the superior court by Peaslee, J. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to prove the following facts: The accident happened June 4, 1900, when the plaintiff was fifteen years and six months old. The defendants operate a yarn mill in a building consisting of five stories and a basement. The floors above the basement were referred to in the evidence as…
1Opinion of the CourtRemick, J.
I. It was within tbe discretion of tbe trial court to permit tbe introduction of further evidence by tbe plaintiff, notwithstanding be bad rested, tbe defendants bad moved for non-suit, and tbe motion bad been argued. Sanford Mfg. Co. v. Wiggin, 14 N. H. 441, 451; Wells v. Burbank, 17 N. H. 393; State v. Martin, 89 Me. 117; Meserve v. Folsom, 62 Vt. 504; Case v. Dodge, 18 R. I. 661; Trumbull v. O’Hara, 68 Conn. 33; Wingo v. Caldwell, 35 S. C. 609; Cushman v. Coleman, 92 Ga. 772: Kelly v. Company, 22 Col. 221; Garber v. Gianella, 98 Cal. 527; Illinois etc. R. R. v. Griffin, 80 Fed. Rep. 278,…
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