Rock v. Indian Orchard Mills
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ. Answer, á general denial. Trial in the Superior Court, before Bacon, J., who allowed a bill of ex-" ceptions, in substance as follows: The plaintiff introduced evidence tending to show that he, a boy between thirteen and fourteen years of age, was employed by the defendant in its cotton mill as a railway or card boy; that it was a portion of his duties to fix and press up the “ hangs,” to…
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Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ. Answer, á general denial. Trial in the Superior Court, before Bacon, J., who allowed a bill of ex-" ceptions, in substance as follows: The plaintiff introduced evidence tending to show that he, a boy between thirteen and fourteen years of age, was employed by the defendant in its cotton mill as a railway or card boy; that it was a portion of his duties to fix and press up the “ hangs,” to attend to fifty-six cards, to clean the cards, to stop and start them once every day, when they were stripped, to see…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, C. J.
The plaintiff, who is a boy thirteen years old, was injured, while in the employ of the defendant, by getting his hand in a machine called a “ winder.” This is a machine about four feet and four inches long and two feet and ten inches high, consisting of three smooth steel cylinders, two large ones with a small one between them, on which cotton is wound. They revolve about fifteen to twenty times a minute. The gears and pulleys connected with them were covered, but there was no fence or other protection against danger from the other part of the machine. A machine called a “ card-grinder ”…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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