Flynn v. Prince, Collins & Marston Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by a woman employed in the defendant’s shoe factory at Danvers, to recover for injuries alleged to have been caused by negligence of the defendant in not providing a safe place for the plaintiff to use in the course of her employment.
Read the full summary
Tort by a woman employed in the defendant’s shoe factory at Danvers, to recover for injuries alleged to have been caused by negligence of the defendant in not providing a safe place for the plaintiff to use in the course of her employment. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Essex dated March 24, 1905. There was a trial before White, J. Besides the facts stated in the opinion, it appeared that the shafting there described was about a foot and a half above the floor, and that, where it extended into the dressing room, it rested upon a bracket; and there was evidence tending to show…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
We assume that the case was tried on the second count. That was a count at common law for not providing a safe place for the plaintiff in the course of her employment.
The arrangement of the dressing room adopted and maintained by the defendant was, or at any rate could be found to be, an extraordinary, dangerous and negligent one. To make a dressing room for its employees, the defendant company enclosed a corner of the stitching room by carrying the partition wall over the shaft, leaving a foot and a half of the shaft on the dressing room side of the partition wall. Among the hooks which it…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Falardeau v. HoarMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
- Hogarth v. Pocasset Manufacturing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
- Young v. MillerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
- Johnson v. Field-Thurber Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898
- Wosbigian v. Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
3Cited by4 opinions
- Ryan v. GrayMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
- Kuhn v. LuskSupreme Court of Missouri · 1920
- Scanlan v. George G. Page Box Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
- Johnson v. Cochrane Chemical Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915