Seininski v. Wilmington Leather Co.
Superior Court of Delaware
Action on the Case to recover damages for personal injuries to the plaintiff occasioned by his left arm coming in contact with the knives of a fleshing machine in defendant’s morocco plant, where plaintiff was employed at the time as a catcher of skins at said machine, whereby his arm was so injured that it had to be amputated at the elbow. Further facts in charge of court. At the trial, the following questions were objected to and ruled upon.
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Action on the Case to recover damages for personal injuries to the plaintiff occasioned by his left arm coming in contact with the knives of a fleshing machine in defendant’s morocco plant, where plaintiff was employed at the time as a catcher of skins at said machine, whereby his arm was so injured that it had to be amputated at the elbow. Further facts in charge of court. At the trial, the following questions were objected to and ruled upon. One of the plaintiff’s witnesses who had worked ten years on a fleshing machine, was asked, concerning the machine on which plaintiff was injured, “Was…
1Opinion of the Court
Pennewill, C. J.,
charging the-jury:
Gentlemen of the jury:—Thomas Seininski, the plaintiff, is seeking in this action to recover from the Wilmington Leather Company, the defendant, damages for personal injuries which he alleges were caused by the negligence of the defendant on the fourteenth day of January, 1910, at its leather factory in the City of Wilmington, where the plaintiff was at the time employed in catching skins from a fleshing machine.
The plaintiff’s declaration consists of three counts. In the first count it is averred that the defendant on the fourteenth day of January, 1910,…
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