Donahue v. Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ. The declaration contained two counts, the first at common law and the second under the employers’ liability act, St. 1887, c. 270. Trial in the Superior Court before Dewey, J., who directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant, and, at the request of the plaintiff, reported the case for the determination of this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
It is not easy to understand from the exceptions the precise manner in which the accident occurred. The plaintiff testified that his glove got caught on the coach or set screw when he reached his hand in to cut the wire for the purpose of taking the reel of wire from the block. How he reached his hand in is not clear. But he had worked for six weeks on the machine on which he was injured, and for two years before that on a similar machine, which only differed from the one in question in making eighteen or twenty revolutions instead of thirty or thirty-two a minute, and in being twenty-two…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Rooney v. Sewall & Day Cordage Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
- Goodnow v. Walpole Emery MillsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
- Hale v. CheneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Connelly v. Hamilton Woolen Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
3Cited by6 opinions
- Ford v. Mount Tom Sulphite Pulp Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
- King v. MorganCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1901
- Howard v. Fall River Iron Works Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- McLeod v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
- Mutter v. Lawrence Manufacturing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
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