Proulx v. Goodrich
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the April term, 1913, of the superior court by Young, J., on the defendant’s exceptions to the denial of motions, for a nonsuit and the direction of a verdict in his favor.
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
The plaintiff was fifteen years of age. There is no evidence of incapacity of mind or body, and he must be assumed to have been of the average capacity of boys of that age. He entered the defendant’s employ on May 1 and continued doing the same ivork each day until injured on August 8. The mere fact of injury does not establish the right of recovery. Such ground must be found, if it exists, in some breach of duty owed the plaintiff by the defendant, as the legal cause of the injury.
The plaintiff tended a brick-conveyor. This machine consisted of two endless cables stretched from the…
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- Cronin v. Columbian Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1909
- Reynolds v. Burgess Sulphite Fibre Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1904
- Dame v. Laconia Car Co. WorksSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1902
- Hicks v. Claremont Paper Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1907
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