Keating v. Hewatt
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff on March 14, 1907, while he was employed in the mule spinning department of a mill of the defendants.
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Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff on March 14, 1907, while he was employed in the mule spinning department of a mill of the defendants. Writ dated June 26, 1908. The declaration contained a first count alleging as the cause of the accident a defect in the ways, works or machinery of the defendants, a second count alleging as a cause negligence of a superintendent, and a third count alleging that the accident was due to a negligent failure of the defendants properly to instruct the plaintiff. The case was tried before Fox, J. The material facts which the jury were warranted…
1Opinion of the CourtDeCourcy, J.
The plaintiff obtained a verdict on his second count, which alleged that his injury was caused by the negligence of a superintendent of the defendants; and the only question raised by the exceptions is whether there was evidence to warrant the verdict.
The place where the accident occurred was in the alleyway between the back of the plaintiff’s spinning machine and that of the next machine, which was operated by one Patton. The length of this space was about forty-five feet, and its width thirty inches, except where the rim band and the driving gears, midway on the back of each machine,…
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