Fitzgerald v. Connecticut River Paper Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while employed by the defendant in its paper-mill, through an alleged defect in a stairway leading to and from the mill.
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Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while employed by the defendant in its paper-mill, through an alleged defect in a stairway leading to and from the mill. Trial in the Superior Court, before Mason, C. J., who allowed a bill of exceptions which, so far as material, was as follows: “ The evidence introduced by the plaintiff tended to prove that the plaintiff, a woman fifty-one years of age, had been working in the mill of the defendant thirteen years, though not all the time for the same company ; that she worked in the rag-room all the time; that there was a stairway of…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
There was evidence proper for the consideration of the jury on the question whether the defendant corporation was negligent in permitting the steps on which the plaintiff was injured to be slippery and dangerous. It was its duty to provide on its premises a reasonably safe passageway for the use of its employees in going to and from their work.
There was evidence that fifty women working in the same room with the plaintiff used the steps daily; and it was a question of fact for the jury whether the plaintiff was in the exercise of due care in trying to go down the steps as she did at the time…
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