Blanchard v. Vermont Shade Roller Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1911, Addison County, Miles, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
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Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1911, Addison County, Miles, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case. The first count in the declaration, after alleging in general terms an undertaking by defendant to protect plaintiff in the performance of the work that he was doing at the time of the accident, proceeds as follows: “That is to say, that the defendant then and there promised and assumed to the plaintiff that while the plaintiff was at work in the pit aforesaid, as aforesaid, it,…
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.
The plaintiff, an adult employee in the defendant’s shade roller factory a£ Vergennes, while at work throwing out rubbish from the elevator pit, was injured by a truck which came down through an unenclosed elevator opening in the floor above. He had worked in the factory twelve years; during the last ten of which he had kept the boiler fires, and in connection with this had gathered the refuse wood from all parts of the building. In doing this work he had used the elevator, and had become familiar with the manner and extent of its use by the other employees; had seen the number of men at work…
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