Young v. Snell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries incurred by a carpenter on May 14,. 1906, while employed by the defendant to build an addition to Ms planing mill at Attleborough, in the manner stated M the opinion.
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Tort for personal injuries incurred by a carpenter on May 14,. 1906, while employed by the defendant to build an addition to Ms planing mill at Attleborough, in the manner stated M the opinion. Writ dated November 28, 1906. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Raymond, J., who at the close of all the evidence ordered a verdict for the defendant, and, with the consent of the parties, reported the case for determination by this court of the questions of law raised by his ruling. If his ruling was correct, judgment was to be entered for the defendant; if not, judgment was to be…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
The plaintiff was hired by the defendant to put up an addition to his planing mill about six weeks before the accident here complained of. He testified that he was invited by the defendant to use the machinery in the mill whenever he had work to be done which could be done more quickly on one of the machines. On the day in question he had occasion to square up a piece of quarter round board and undertook to use the defendant’s buzz planer in doing that work. His story was that he found that he did not have the right gouge on; that he went and set the gouge; that he then “ went to pick up ”…
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