Quigley v. Thomas G. Plant Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tobt, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ by the alleged negligence of the defendant. Trial in the Superior Court, before Bishop, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The plaintiff suffered the loss of a portion of his hand while operating a Bresnahan dieing-out machine.
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Tobt, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ by the alleged negligence of the defendant. Trial in the Superior Court, before Bishop, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The plaintiff suffered the loss of a portion of his hand while operating a Bresnahan dieing-out machine. The object of the machine was to cut or stamp out soles of shoes by the pressure by steam power of a heavy steel block, called a head block, upon another block, called a die, the leather to be cut being placed between the blocks. The machine was operated…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
This is an action of tort for personal injuries. The plaintiff at the time of receiving his injuries was between twenty-five and twenty-six years of age, and for about two years before he went to work for the defendant had worked upon a machine known as the Bresnahan dieing-out (or dinking) machine, which was a machine in common use in the shoe factories in Lynn, and was similar to the machine on which he was injured, except that this machine had a tin guard placed over a part of the counter shaft. The plaintiff was a workman whose business it was to cut out soles upon the machine by placing…
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- Cassady v. Boston & Albany RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
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