Gosselin v. F. M. Hoyt Shoe Co.

The evidence justifies the following finding of facts. The plaintiff was about twenty years of age at the time of the accident and had been working for the defendant for some seven months. His work was to operate a compressing machine which pressed the taps on the soles, and to trim rubber soles with a knife. On the morning of the accident, after having completed the pressing of soles, he looked for his knife to use in trimming some rubber soles, and saw it on the floor under his bench where it had fallen. It was lying directly under a revolving wheel which operated the com-presser. Supposing…