Anderson v. United States Rubber Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to and heard in damages by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Greorge W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for nominal damages only, from which the plaintiff appealed.
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Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to and heard in damages by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Greorge W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for nominal damages only, from which the plaintiff appealed. The complaint alleges in substance that the defendant corporation, in its business of reclaiming rubber, used a rolling machine consisting in part of two revolving metal rollers set so as to receive sheets of rubber fed between them by the operator; that there was danger in operating this machine,…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
This is an action for an injury claimed to have been sustained by the plaintiff while operating a dangerous machine furnished by the defendant in disregard of its duty to exercise reasonable care to provide reasonably safe appliances for the work which the plaintiff was employed to perform. The complaint should, among other things, state wherein the defendant failed to perform such duty, by alleging, either by direct averment or by the facts alleged, or both, in what respect the machine furnished was not reasonably safe, in what particulars the defendant failed to exercise reasonable care in…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Lovejoy v. IsbellSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1900
- Ryan v. Chelsea Paper Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1897
3Cited by7 opinions
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- Mezzi v. TaylorSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1923
- Dunn v. MacDonaldSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1929
- Gargan v. HarrisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1916
- Simeoli v. Derby Rubber Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
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