Jones v. Granite Mills
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff, while in the employ of the defendant, a manufacturing corporation, from the burning of its mill.
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Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff, while in the employ of the defendant, a manufacturing corporation, from the burning of its mill. At the trial in this court, before Lord, J., the plaintiff offered to prove that the mill was a large building, five stories in height, with an attic; that each story contained one large room; that the only way of entrance to the several stories was through a tower on the outside of the mill, with stairs leading from story to story and coming to the platform at each story, and sufficient at all ordinary times to allow the operatives a…
1Opinion of the CourtEndicott, J.
In examining the questions presented in this case, it is important to ascertain the specific acts of negligence on the part of the defendant, relied on by the plaintiff in her offer of proof.
No question is made but that the defendant’s mill was strong and well built, safe and convenient for the usual and customary work carried on within it. It had a single staircase, placed within a tower, affording means of communication between the different stories, and of entering and leaving all parts of the mill, which was ample and sufficient under all ordinary circumstances, taking into view the…
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