Doolan v. Pocasset Manufacturing Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ and to have been caused by the sudden opening for the passage of a freight elevator of doors in the floor of the room where the plaintiff worked in the defendant’s mill in Fall River, the plaintiff being thereby caught between one of the doors and a post.
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Tort for personal injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ and to have been caused by the sudden opening for the passage of a freight elevator of doors in the floor of the room where the plaintiff worked in the defendant’s mill in Fall River, the plaintiff being thereby caught between one of the doors and a post. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Bristol dated November 11, 1906. There was a trial before White, J. There was evidence tending to show that the plaintiff when injured was fifteen years of age, that he had gone to school from…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
It is provided by R. L. c. 104, § 27, among other things, that “ elevators used for carrying freight shall be equipped with a suitable device which shall act as a danger signal to warn people of the approach of the elevator,” but that upon the approval of the building commissioner in Boston or of the “inspector of buildings, or inspector of factories and public buildings, any elevator may be used without any or all of such appliances or devices if the nature of the business is such that the necessity for the same will not warrant the expense.” There was evidence that the freight elevator by…
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