Wilson v. Massachusetts Cotton Mills
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, while in the defendant’s employ, by the alleged negligence of the defendant. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bishop, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendant alleged exceptions, in substance as follows. The plaintiff was injured by having the -fingers of his right hand caught between two revolving wheels of a machine used in hoisting and piling cotton.
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Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, while in the defendant’s employ, by the alleged negligence of the defendant. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bishop, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendant alleged exceptions, in substance as follows. The plaintiff was injured by having the -fingers of his right hand caught between two revolving wheels of a machine used in hoisting and piling cotton. It appeared that this machine was located in the yard of the defendant’s mill, the left of the machine being very near the walls of one of its…
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
We are of opinion that the request of the defendant for a ruling that the plaintiff could not maintain the action should have been given.
The plaintiff at the time of the accident was at work in one of the defendant’s yards, on a machine used for hoisting bales of cotton. The machine was run by a belt, and had a tight pulley and a loose pulley. To start the machine the plaintiff stood at the side of the machine opposite the belt, with one hand on a lever, which, by pulling it towards him, would throw the belt from the loose pulley to the tight pulley. There was another lever, by the moving of…
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