Hale v. Cheney

This is an action at common law, in which the plaintiff seeks to recover for personal injuries sustained by him while in the defendant’s employ. The case comes before us on the defendant’s exceptions to the refusal of the judge who presided in the court below to rule that the plaintiff had failed to show that he was in the exercise of due care when injured, or that the defendant’s, machinery was unsuitably placed, defective, and dangerous.

The defendant was a manufacturer of boxes. He occupied a room seventy-eight feet long and thirty-eight feet wide, in which were about fifteen machines.…