Lemoine v. Aldrich
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries, occasioned to the plaintiff while in the - employ of the defendant. Trial in the Superior Court, before Gaskill, J., who, at the close of the evidence for the plaintiff and at the defendant’s request, directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion and in a note by the reporter.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
Across a doorway between two rooms in the defendant’s blanket mill ran a revolving iron shaft at a height of four feet above the floor, so placed that in passing from one of the rooms to the other it was necessary to stoop. The plaintiff knew that the shafting operated the lumpers, and that when the mill was running the shafting was turning, and at the time of the accident he knew that the mill was running. He had to pass through the door many times a day, more than two or three times an hour. He was set to work at sweeping up from the floor material that came from one of the lumpers, and…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Coombs v. New Bedford Cordage Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
- Rooney v. Sewall & Day Cordage Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
- Ciriack v. Merchants' Woolen Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
- Ciriack v. Merchants' Woolen Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890
- Ford v. Mount Tom Sulphite Pulp Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
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- Chisholm v. DonovanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
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