Crowley v. Pacific Mills
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employment, through its alleged negligence. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., evidence was introduced by the plaintiff tending to prove the following facts, which alone are material.
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Tort for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employment, through its alleged negligence. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., evidence was introduced by the plaintiff tending to prove the following facts, which alone are material. The plaintiff, a boy about seventeen years old, who had been employed at intervals upon machinery in various mills since he was twelve years of age, was employed by the defendant, in April, 1886, upon machines for printing cloths, consisting in part of rolls and cylinders, around which the cloth was passed. A…
1Opinion of the CourtC. Allen, J.
The plaintiff’s injury was received, according to his own testimony, in consequence of his putting his finger in between the roll and the cylinder, in order to smooth the cloth just before it passed upon the cylinder, by taking out a “double edge,” as it was called, that being a term applied to the turning over or under of the edge of the cloth. The plaintiff was seventeen years old, and had been at work for about six months upon a machine substantially like that upon which he received the injury, except that the distance between the roll and the cylinder was less upon the latter machine; and…
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