Fitzgerald v. International Flax Twine Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $15,000 ■damages for personal injuries. The case was tried before Brill, J., and a jury which returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $4,000. From an order denying-its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendant appealed.
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Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $15,000 ■damages for personal injuries. The case was tried before Brill, J., and a jury which returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $4,000. From an order denying-its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendant appealed. Plaintiff and respondent was employed by defendant and appellant to assist in the operation of spinning flax-. In the room in which she was at work were sixteen machines of different designs and make. The machine upon which respondent was injured was thirty feet long, four feet…
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
(after stating the facts as above).
The facts, which have been stated at some length, may, for present purposes (see Strutzel v. St. Paul City Ry. Co., 47 Minn. 543, 50 N. W. 690), be thus summarized: Plaintiff was at work on a large flax ma: *144chine. Extending along its front and along its rear were rods by which it was started and stopped. The back of the machine was protected by a shield. The flax passed over guides, through one set of rollers, then over a plate to the middle set of rollers, then through and under them to a revolving bed of needles, and thence through other rollers out of the…
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