Geno v. Fall Mountain Paper Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for negligence of the defendant. Plea, the .general issue. Trial by court at the September term, 1894, Rutland county, Start, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepts. The defendant was proprietor of a .pulp mill and the plaintiff was employed by it at work upon certain screens in said mill at the time he was injured.
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Case for negligence of the defendant. Plea, the .general issue. Trial by court at the September term, 1894, Rutland county, Start, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepts. The defendant was proprietor of a .pulp mill and the plaintiff was employed by it at work upon certain screens in said mill at the time he was injured. His evidence tended to show that he had been engaged by the defendant something like a week before the injury ; that he was sixteen years of age; that he had no knowledge of the operation of the machinery which he was required to run, nor…
1Opinion of the CourtTyler, J.
The defendant’s counsel requested the court to instruct the jury as follows :
“If the jury shall find that the plaintiff was caught upon a set-screw, notwithstanding this fact, if, at the time of the accident, said set-screw was an approved appliance then in common use in that vicinity, for the purpose for which it was used, then the defendant was not chargeable with any neglect in this respect.
“If the set-screw with the projecting head was the common and ordinary way of attaching collars to shafting in the manufactories of this vicinity, that method was reasonably safe in thq eyes of the law.…
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- Smith v. St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1878
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- Marshall v. Widdicomb Furniture Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1887
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