Peterson v. Morgan Spring Co.

This is an action of tort for personal injuries received while winding wire “into a spring on a lathe machine ” at the defendant’s works. The declaration contained four counts, of which the second and fourth were for defective appliances either under the statute or at common law, while the first alleged negligence of a person entrusted with superintendence, and the third charged a failure to give suitable instructions. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, the defendant asked the judge to give certain rulings to which we shall later refer. The first, third and fourth requests were…