Louft v. C. & J. Pyle Co.
Superior Court of Delaware
Action on the Case (No. 60 March Term, 1908), to recover damages for personal injuries to the plaintiff, an employee of the defendant, alleged to have been caused through the negligence of the master in not furnishing his servant with a reasonably safe morocco shaving, machine upon which to work, and also in not properly instructing the servant in regard to the proper operation of said machine.
1Opinion of the Court
Woolley, J.,
charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury:—This is an action which has arisen out of the relation which the parties bear to one another of master and servant, wherein the plaintiff as servant seeks to recover from the defendant as master, damages for personal injuries resulting from the alleged negligence of the defendant. The particular acts of negligence imputed to the defendant and which are alleged to have occasioned the injuries of which the plaintiff complains, are set forth in twenty-six counts of the plaintiff’s declaration and amended declarations, from which it appears,…
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