Doyle v. Singer Sewing Machine Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, against a corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling and leasing sewing machines, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on February 1, 1907, when she was about nineteen years old, from being struck on the head and nose by the cover of a sewing machine belonging to the defendant and leased by it to the plaintiff’s mother owing to the negligence of an agent of the defendant who had been sent to the residence of the plaintiff’s mother to…
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Tort, against a corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling and leasing sewing machines, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on February 1, 1907, when she was about nineteen years old, from being struck on the head and nose by the cover of a sewing machine belonging to the defendant and leased by it to the plaintiff’s mother owing to the negligence of an agent of the defendant who had been sent to the residence of the plaintiff’s mother to repair the machine. Writ dated April 4, 1910. In the Superior Court the case last was tried before White, J. The evidence is…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
The radiograph, if properly admitted, tended to prove to the jury the existence of certain physical defects in and about the bony structure in the front of the plaintiff’s head, around the eyes and upper part of the nose.
The evidence was relevant to the issue before the jury. Buck v. McKeesport, 223 Penn. St. 211. The radiograph was taken by Dr. Liebman, who testified that he was a clinical assistant at the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary; that he had been connected therewith since 1910, and had charge of the X-ray department; that he took four negatives of the plaintiff’s…
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