Laplante v. Warren Cotton Mills
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, who was fourteen years old and a French Canadian, while in the defendant’s employ. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Mason, C. J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
This is an action for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff while trying to replace a belt on a pulley in the defendant’s mill, where he was employed. The declaration contains counts for defective machinery, but when the evidence was in the plaintiff elected to go to the jury only on one count for setting him to work in a dangerous place without sufficient instruction. The case is here on exceptions.
1. Several exceptions were taken to questions about the machinery, including some comparing it with other machinery in use in the same place. Evidently these were admitted under the counts…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Lane v. MooreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890
- Patnode v. Warren Cotton MillsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- Daley v. American Printing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- Connors v. GrilleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- Armstrong v. ForgMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
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- Commonwealth v. TeregnoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
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