Sheehan v. Goodrich
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received through a needle breaking and flying into the plaintiff’s eye while she, a girl twenty years of age, was at work upon a machine for sewing buttons on shoes in the defendant’s shoe factory, the declaration containing two counts at common law, one alleging negligence in furnishing the plaintiff with unsafe, dangerous and defective tools and machinery to work with and a second alleging negligence in failing to warn or instruct her of dangers…
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Tort for personal injuries received through a needle breaking and flying into the plaintiff’s eye while she, a girl twenty years of age, was at work upon a machine for sewing buttons on shoes in the defendant’s shoe factory, the declaration containing two counts at common law, one alleging negligence in furnishing the plaintiff with unsafe, dangerous and defective tools and machinery to work with and a second alleging negligence in failing to warn or instruct her of dangers attending her work, and two counts under R. L. c. 106, § 71, cl. 1, 2, alleging as causes of the plaintiff’s injury…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
This is an action of tort to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant, through the breaking of a needle on a machine used for sewing buttons on shoes. The machine was similar to an ordinary sewing machine, except that there was attached to its top a can connected by a chute with the needle. This device was for the purpose of automatically feeding the buttons down to the needle in such a position that the needle would pass through the eye of the button and thus fasten it to the shoe. The plaintiff was twenty years old, and had worked upon the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Graham v. BadgerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
- Ryan v. Fall River Iron Works Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Childs v. American Express Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Whalen v. RosnoskyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Healy v. Gilchrist Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
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- Douglas v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923