O'Connor v. Adams
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tout for personal injuries. At the trial in this court, before Ames, J., the plaintiff testified that he was a native of Ireland, where he never had any employment, except in farming, and where he had never had any experience with machinery; that on May 12,1869, two days after he landed in this country, he went to the sugar refinery of the defendants’ testator, Seth Adams, to try to get employment, and was hired to work in the warehouse by one Dustin, the general agent or…
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Tout for personal injuries. At the trial in this court, before Ames, J., the plaintiff testified that he was a native of Ireland, where he never had any employment, except in farming, and where he had never had any experience with machinery; that on May 12,1869, two days after he landed in this country, he went to the sugar refinery of the defendants’ testator, Seth Adams, to try to get employment, and was hired to work in the warehouse by one Dustin, the general agent or foreman of Adams; that he at once commenced work in the warehouse under Austin, the foreman of the warehouse, and…
1Opinion of the CourtEndicott, J.
Upon a careful examination of the report, the court is of opinion that there was evidence tending to show that the defendants’ agents put the plaintiff in a place of peculiar danger, of which he had no knowledge or experience, without informing him of the risks, or instructing him how to avoid them. That question was proper to be submitted to the jury, together with the question whether the plaintiff was in the exercise of due care at the time.
The duty of an employer to take proper precautions for the safety of a person employed in running or tending machinery, especially when such person,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Coombs v. New Bedford Cordage Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
- Sullivan v. India Manufacturing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Railroad Company v. FortSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
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- Felton v. GirardyCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1900
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