Mulvaney v. Peck
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated March 23, 1904. On appeal to the Superior Court, the case was tried before Hardy, J., who refused a request of the defendant to instruct the jury to return a verdict for him. There was a verdict for the plaintiff and the defendant excepted. The material facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
This was an action for injuries caused by the automatic starting of a printing machine on which the plaintiff was at work.
The plaintiff, who had had experience in such work before he was employed by the defendant, was at the time of the accident feeding a Golding press. A Golding press is a printing machine where the type is set in a bed on the face of an upright standard. The sheet to be printed is placed in a platen which, when at rest, is at an angle with the standard. The press is set in *96motion by an ordinary shipper which transfers the belt from the loose to the tight pulley, and…
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