Legal Opinion
West's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 28, 1943PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.
The employee, a young man less than eighteen years of age, was hired on October 14, 1938, and put to work on a carding machine, a machine consisting of a series of revolving rolls, the surfaces of which were covered by fine brush like wire that combed the material as it was drawn through the machine. One of these rolls, known as the doffer, revolved two to six times a minute when the machine was in operation. The principal roll, called the cylinder, was five or six feet in diameter and made eighty to ninety revolutions a minute when the machine was in use. Lint from the material supplied to…
2Cases cited62 opinions
- Sponatski's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
- Burns's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Sandler v. SilkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- Berdos v. Tremont & Suffolk MillsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Commonwealth v. MixerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
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3Cited by49 opinions
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- Druzik v. Board of Health of HaverhillMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
- Demoulas v. DemoulasMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
- Nycal Corp. v. KPMG Peat Marwick LLPMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
- Decker v. Black & Decker Manufacturing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
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