Grace v. United Society
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received, by the plaintiff, a boy less than fifteen years of age, while employed by the defendant and assisting in the operation of a machine called a “ cylinder planer,” as stated in the opinion.
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Tort for personal injuries received, by the plaintiff, a boy less than fifteen years of age, while employed by the defendant and assisting in the operation of a machine called a “ cylinder planer,” as stated in the opinion. Writ in the Superior Court dated May 28, 1908. The declaration was in three counts, all at common law, the negligence of the defendant alleged in the first count being the furnishing of dangerous, improper and defective machinery and implements for the plaintiff to work with, that in the second count being the placing of the plaintiff in an unsafe place to work, and that…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
When the plaintiff first entered the employ of the defendant he was set to work splitting wood, and he continued at that work up to the day of the accident, a period of two weeks. One Volin, called by the plaintiff, testified that he, Volin, had been working nearly ten years for the defendant; that on the day of the accident he was ordered by one McDermott to plane some boards upon the planing machine; that he .needed some one to help him, and that McDermott in reply to his request for help told him to get the plaintiff; and that he did so. One of the contentions of the defendant is that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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