O'Brien v. Potter Confectionery Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort, the first for personal injuries sustained on May 31, 1910, when the plaintiff was a little more than seventeen years of age and was employed in the defendant’s candy factory at Cambridge, from having the fingers of his left hand cut off by the knives of a peanut grinding machine at which, as it was alleged, the plaintiff had been set at work without sufficient warning or instruction; and the second action by the father of the plaintiff in the first case…
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Two actions of tort, the first for personal injuries sustained on May 31, 1910, when the plaintiff was a little more than seventeen years of age and was employed in the defendant’s candy factory at Cambridge, from having the fingers of his left hand cut off by the knives of a peanut grinding machine at which, as it was alleged, the plaintiff had been set at work without sufficient warning or instruction; and the second action by the father of the plaintiff in the first case for consequential damages arising from his injuries. Writs dated respectively August 19, 1910, and March 7, 1911. In the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Coubt.
John W. O’Brien was injured while at work in grinding peanuts upon a machine which was like that described in detail in Boyd v. Taylor, 195 Mass. 272. It is not possible to make any sound distinction between that case (which was before the court also in 202 Mass. 213, and 207 Mass. 335) and the present cases. There are minor differences in the evidence in the two cases, but a careful examination of the record shows that in all essential features they are alike. It is not necessary to narrate the testimony at length. It is enough to say that upon the authority of Boyd v. Taylor,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Boyd v. TaylorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Boyd v. TaylorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Boyd v. TaylorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
3Cited by1 opinion
- Jordan v. VelozoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1929