Brock v. Ireland-Grafton Co.

The plaintiff was fifty-nine years old. He began work in the defendant’s shoe factory at Dover on May 19, 1925, and was injured six days later. The machine which he was running at the time was designed to press the soles of shoes into shape, and was called a leveler or beating-out machine. Extending' upward from the machine and slanting toward the operative at an angle of about forty-five degrees were two metal projections, called legs, to the ends of which lasts were attached. These lasts were within reaching distance of the operative as he sat at the machine. When the power was applied, one…