Holbrook v. Aldrich
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while in the shop of the defendants. Trial in the Superior Court, before Mason, C. J., who directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendants; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
This is an action for loss of the plaintiff’s fingers, which were-cut off by a coffee grinder in the defendants’ shop. The plaintiff, a minor less than seven years old, entered the shop with her father, who was going to make a purchase. She intended to buy some candy, but in the first place accompanied her father to a part of the shop at some distance from the candy counter and near to the coffee grinder. He let go her hand to get his money, and she went over to the coffee grinder, put her hand up the spout out of which the ground coffee came, hoping to get some whole kernels, and lost her…
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