Lane v. Manchester Mills
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for negligently causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the January term, 1908, of the superior court by Plummer, J. David W. Lane, the plaintiff’s intestate, was fourteen and a half years old at the time of his death, and had worked in the defendants’ finishing room as a patter-boy for about seven months.
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Case, for negligently causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the January term, 1908, of the superior court by Plummer, J. David W. Lane, the plaintiff’s intestate, was fourteen and a half years old at the time of his death, and had worked in the defendants’ finishing room as a patter-boy for about seven months. Cloth about to be finished is brought into the north end of this room and run toward the south end'of it in one continuous piece through six different machines. Between each of these machines and the one next south…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
If the cloth had not become slack, the boy would not have been within its plane and would not have been struck by it. The circumstance, then, that rendered the place unsafe and dangerous, as claimed by the plaintiff, was the liability of the cloth to sag so that the boy could not pass under it without stooping. This was not a concealed defect of which the boy was ignorant, for just before his injury he attempted to pass under it by stooping. It may also be assumed that he must have known that the cloth was liable to be drawn up suddenly by the operation of the machinery, and that it might…
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