Gorrey v. W. F. Hurd Co.

The plaintiff was a woodworker employed for four or five years by defendant on a sticker machine. He claims to have received an injury to the eye, not from his machine, but one adjoining it and about four feet away. This suit was commenced by declaration. Omitting its formal parts, the material averments are:

“Whereupon it became and was the duty of said defendant corporation to furnish the said plaintiff with reasonably sound, safe, and suitable machinery, appliances, fixtures, and place for the making and manufacture by said plaintiff of said woodenware as aforesaid, while so employed by…