Hoadley v. International Paper Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action on the oase for negligence, brought under Y. S. 2451 and 2452, by the plaintiff as administrator of Michael Kennedy, deceased. Plea, general issue. Trial by jury, Rutland County, March Term, 1899, Watson, J., presiding. Yerdict .and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The decedent while at work upon repairs to a pulp digester in the defendant’s mill received injuries which caused his death within two or three days thereafter.
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Action on the oase for negligence, brought under Y. S. 2451 and 2452, by the plaintiff as administrator of Michael Kennedy, deceased. Plea, general issue. Trial by jury, Rutland County, March Term, 1899, Watson, J., presiding. Yerdict .and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The decedent while at work upon repairs to a pulp digester in the defendant’s mill received injuries which caused his death within two or three days thereafter. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
I. The defendant excepted to the refusal of the County Court to direct a verdict for it on the ground that the alleged negligence causing the death of the decedent occurred while he was at work Sunday, on the defendant’s pulp digester in its paper mill at Bellows Falls, Yt. The defendant also ex-cepted to the charge to the jury on this subject. The instruction was in substance that the plaintiff was entitled to recover if his case was made out in other respects, notwithstanding that the •decedent, at the time of the accident, was working for the defendant on Sunday, if the jury found that…
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