Pavan v. Worthen & Aldrich Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Swayze, J.

There was evidence from which the jury might infer that the cloth upon which plaintiff was working “jumped” owing to a change made that day in the character of what are called “stretchersthat Pavan complained to one Campbell, who promised to fix it “by and by,” but also said, “Go ahead, got too much work to-day.” The plaintiff was injured in the afternoon of that day.

The evidence of the negligence and of its causal connection with the injury is meager, but we think sufficed to permit an inference that the machine was in defective condition…