Demars v. Glen Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for personal injuries. Verdict for the plaintiff. The plaintiff was employed by the defendants as a carpenter to make repairs about their mill, and occasionally he used a saw which was propelled by power transmitted to it from a large pulley upon the main shafting of the mill by means of belts, pulleys, and shafting.
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Case, for personal injuries. Verdict for the plaintiff. The plaintiff was employed by the defendants as a carpenter to make repairs about their mill, and occasionally he used a saw which was propelled by power transmitted to it from a large pulley upon the main shafting of the mill by means of belts, pulleys, and shafting. At one side of the large pulley was a device called a belt-catcher, the purpose of which was, like that of a loose pulley, to receive the belt running over the driving pulley when not in use. The belt was shifted back and forth between the ■ driving pulley and the…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam. *
1. Upon competent evidence the jury have found that the defendants were negligent, in furnishing the plaintiff with defective machinery in consequence of which the accident occurred; but it is claimed that because he knew of the existence of these defects he assumed the risk of being injured thereby. It was a controverted fact whether the lever and its connections were reasonably adapted to the use of putting the belt back when it ran off the pulley on the side opposite the belt-catcher, or whether the method adopted by the plaintiff was reasonably prudent and necessary under the…
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