Podvin v. Pepperell Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion by defendant. Action on the case to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while operating a spinning machine in the defendant’s mill, and which said machine the plaintiff alleged to be "unsafe, unsuitable, inconvenient, out of repair and dangerous in that there projected from a shaft upon or connected with said machine a set-screw nut or bolt, the same projecting a certain distance, to wit one inch,” and that the set-screw caught in her…
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On motion by defendant. Action on the case to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while operating a spinning machine in the defendant’s mill, and which said machine the plaintiff alleged to be "unsafe, unsuitable, inconvenient, out of repair and dangerous in that there projected from a shaft upon or connected with said machine a set-screw nut or bolt, the same projecting a certain distance, to wit one inch,” and that the set-screw caught in her hair and "stripped her scalp from neck to eyebrow.” Plea, the general issue with brief statement as follows: "That any…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, C. J.
This case is one of that class now come to be known as "set-screw cases.” The evidence for the plaintiff and the uncontradicted and credible evidence for the defendant establishes the following as the version to be taken as true. The plaintiff was a woman fifty-nine years of age in the employ of the defendant company in its cotton mill, and had charge of and operated a somewhat complex spinning machine known as an "intermediate.” Two revolving metal cones, one above the other, ran lengthwise this machine under the spindles. The lower cone was within two inches of the floor. The upper cone was…
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- Ragon v. Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1893
- Ford v. Mount Tom Sulphite Pulp Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
- Mutter v. Lawrence Manufacturing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
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