Potter v. Richardson & Robbins Co.
Superior Court of Delaware
Action by Annie Potter against Richardson and Robbins Company to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been occasioned by negligence of defendant company. General demurrer to the three counts in the declaration. Sustained. The questions on the legal sufficiency of the declaration appear from the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Pennewill, C. J.,
delivering the opinion of the court:
In this case the defendant has demurred generally to the three counts of plaintiff’s declaration.
In the first count, it is alleged that the defendant is a corporation engaged in the business of canning poultry and other food stuffs, that plaintiff was employed in its factory at Dover to clean, and prepare the carcasses of chickens for canning, by drawing the entrails and cutting up the carcasses in pieces, that it was defendant’s duty to furnish plaintiff with reasonably safe and sound carcasses of chickens to be cleaned and prepared by…
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- Wormell v. Maine Central RailroadSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1887
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