Lapelle v. International Paper Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, by an employee against his employers, for negligence in the failure to properly instruct him and to inform him of the dangers pertaining to his work. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the November term, 1901, of the superior court by Wallace, C. J. The plaintiff, at the time of his employment by the defendants and of his injury, was nearly eighteen years of age, and was possessed of all his faculties.
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Case, by an employee against his employers, for negligence in the failure to properly instruct him and to inform him of the dangers pertaining to his work. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the November term, 1901, of the superior court by Wallace, C. J. The plaintiff, at the time of his employment by the defendants and of his injury, was nearly eighteen years of age, and was possessed of all his faculties. He had never worked in a mill, and had no knowledge of machinery. The defendants knew of his inexperience. They employed him and set him to work in one of their…
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
There was sufficient competent tesilmony tending to prove the negligence alleged to warrant the submission of the question to the jury. The defendants, knowing that the plaintiff was a young and inexperienced man having no knowledge of machinery, assigned him to the performance of a duty, one of the probable incidents of which was the cleaning of pulp from roll 8, without — if the plaintiff's testimony is believed — giving him any information whatever how to perforin the service. It is not a matter of common knowledge that the proper way to clean the roll Is by throwing a stream of water upon…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Jaques v. Great Falls Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1891
- Henderson v. WilliamsSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1890
- Bennett v. WarrenSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1900
- Lintott v. Nashua Iron & Steel Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1899
3Cited by9 opinions
- Cassidy v. Atlantic Corp.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1920
- Disalets v. International Paper Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1908
- Hamel v. Newmarket Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1905
- Boyce v. JohnsonSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1903
- Roy v. HodgeSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1907
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