Girard v. Grosvenordale Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by a servant to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant's negligence, brought to the Superior Court in Windham County and tried to the jury before George W. Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $5,000, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The plaintiff was employed as a scourer in the defendant’s cotton mill in a room known as the new spinning room, and also in a smaller adjoining room. There was no dispute between the parties that, while the plaintiff was in the small room on the day named in the complaint, he was struck by a falling counter-shaft, and thereby injured as alleged in the complaint.
The question upon the trial was whether the injury was caused by the negligence of the defendant, set up in the first count of the complaint, so as to give the plaintiff a right of action against it. The negligence alleged is that the…
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