Gleason v. Smith
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ. Trial in the Superior Court, before Bond, J., who directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant ; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. The' facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a moulder in a wood working shop where piano cases were manufactured, and while working upon a machine moulding the top of a piano his thumb and two fingers were cut off. He contends that the defendant was negligent in setting him to work upon a dangerous machine without warning him of the danger. The only objection which he now makes to the machine is that a guard used upon it was not so wide as it should have been.^
The plaintiff testified that he had been a moulder ten years or more, and had worked for the defendant in this shop about four…
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