O'Hare v. Cocheco Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
'Case, for personal injuries. Trial by jury and verdict for tbe plaintiff. Transferred from tbe February term, 1901, of tbe supreme court by Young, J. Tbe plaintiff’s evidence tended to prove tbe following facts: ’Tbe plaintiff was about twenty-six years old, and was employed iin tbe dry-room of tbe defendants’ printery, running a drying machine.
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'Case, for personal injuries. Trial by jury and verdict for tbe plaintiff. Transferred from tbe February term, 1901, of tbe supreme court by Young, J. Tbe plaintiff’s evidence tended to prove tbe following facts: ’Tbe plaintiff was about twenty-six years old, and was employed iin tbe dry-room of tbe defendants’ printery, running a drying machine. Clotb comes from tbe looms in pieces wbiclr average about fifty yards in length, but when it comes to tbe printery these pieces are -sewed together so as to form a continuous band of clotb. The plaintiff’s machine was used for “ chemicing ” and…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, J.
It is not contended that there was any defect in the machine upon which the plaintiff was injured, or that the-, obligation of the master to provide reasonably safe machinery was. not fully performed. Neither is it claimed that the holes in the-cloth, charged as the cause of the plaintiff’s injury, were due to. any carelessness or unskillfulness of the master in the process of manufacture adopted. So far as appears, such defects are liable-to arise in the prevailing methods of making cloth. At least, there is no attempt to prove the contrary. The only ground of negligence alleged against the…
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