Berdos v. Tremont & Suffolk Mills
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff on January 28, 1907, when less than fourteen years of age, while employed in the defendant’s factory, the declaration containing three counts, the first and third counts alleging as the cause of the injury a failure properly to instruct and warn the plaintiff ás to the dangers of his employment, and the second count alleging as the cause of the injury “ the act of the defendant in employing the plaintiff contrary to the…
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Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff on January 28, 1907, when less than fourteen years of age, while employed in the defendant’s factory, the declaration containing three counts, the first and third counts alleging as the cause of the injury a failure properly to instruct and warn the plaintiff ás to the dangers of his employment, and the second count alleging as the cause of the injury “ the act of the defendant in employing the plaintiff contrary to the provisions of R. L. c. 106, §§ 28, 33, and acts amendatory thereof.” Writ dated January 15,1908. In the Superior Court the…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
There was evidence tending to show that the plaintiff at the time of his injuries was less than fourteen years old, and had been in this country about seven weeks, during four of which he had been in the service of the defendant. He had never before worked in a factory, and could not speak or read English. While waiting for his work, which was about spinning mules in a cotton factory, he stood with his back toward some gears covered by a guard or shield, on which one of his hands rested. In some way not exactly explained, this hand got beyond or under the guard, and was cut by the gear. No…
2Cases cited69 opinions
- Union Pacific Railway Co. v. McDonaldSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Schlemmer v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1907
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- Sullivan v. India Manufacturing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Delk v. St. Louis & San Francisco RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
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- Milbury v. Turner Centre SystemMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
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