Watts v. Derry Shoe Co.

It was the duty of the defendants to furnish a reasonably safe place for the plaintiff to work. Morrison v. Company, 70 N. H. 406; Edwards v. Tilton Mills, 70 N. H. 574; English v. Amidon, 72 N. H. 301; Smith v. Railroad, 73 N. H. 325; Leazotte v. Company, 74 N. H. 480; Osman v. Company, 78 N. H. 597. The plaintiff was an assistant forelady in the defendants’ stitching room. A part of her work was to carry and distribute shoe tops among the operatives in the room. The evidence tended to prove that at the time of the accident she was carrying on her left arm such material, and that she turned…