Mutter v. Lawrence Manufacturing Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff, an employee of the defendant in its cotton mills in Lowell, because of a defective set screw, a part of the machinery of the mills.
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Tort for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff, an employee of the defendant in its cotton mills in Lowell, because of a defective set screw, a part of the machinery of the mills. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Middlesex dated February 1,1906. There was a trial before Stevens, J., at which, beside the facts stated in the opinion, it appeared that the plaintiff had been for eleven years in the employ of the defendant in various capacities in its cotton mills where there was much shafting and many belts and pulleys, and for eighteen months or two years…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
The plaintiff contends that although he knew that pulleys were usually fastened to the shaft by means of set screws, and knew that there were set screws about the pulleys on which he was working although he had not actually seen them, and was instinctively trying to avoid them, yet he had not assumed the risk of injury from the set screw in question, because this differed from the kind ordinarily in use, in that it extended above the hub of the pulley a distance of two inches instead of the usual distance of half to three quarters of an inch, or, on large pulleys, an inch above the hub, and…
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