Demers v. Marshall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort to recover compensation for injuries received by the plaintiff, while employed in a machine shop connected with the hat factory of the defendant.
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Tort to recover compensation for injuries received by the plaintiff, while employed in a machine shop connected with the hat factory of the defendant. Writ dated January 15, 1897. A former verdict for the plaintiff in this case was set aside under a decision of this court reported in 172 Mass. 548. At the new trial in the Superior Court, before Braley, J., the following facts appeared: The plaintiff, a young man eighteen years old, who had previously worked as a weaver three or four months, entered the employment of the defendant as an apprentice in the machine shop about three weeks before…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
We do not think that the additional evidence introduced at the last trial requires or would justify a different view from that which was taken when the case was here before. 172 Mass. 548. Notwithstanding it now appears that projecting set screws have been going out of use for the last ten years on account of safer substitutes, and have not been commonly used in establishments constructed during that time, the new evidence *12falls far short, as a whole, of showing that they are not still commonly used for holding collars and pulleys on to shafts and are not a well recognized device for that…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Rooney v. Sewall & Day Cordage Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
- Ford v. Mount Tom Sulphite Pulp Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
- Wilson v. Massachusetts Cotton MillsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
- Hale v. CheneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Donahue v. Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
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- St. Louis Cordage Co. v. MillerCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1903
- Brands v. St. Louis Car Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1908
- Mutter v. Lawrence Manufacturing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Perkins v. Oxford Paper Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1908
- Kennedy v. Merrimack Paving Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
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