Belevicze v. Platt Bros & Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Ralph Wheeler, J verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $2,500, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The jury may reasonably have found from the evidence submitted by the plaintiff these facts: The plaintiff was a Lithuanian, and when injured in the defendant’s factory was eighteen years and five months old, and had lived in this country three years. His knowledge of English was limited and confined to a few simple words. He entered defendant’s employ and had worked nine days when he was put at work on a blocking machine of a type that was not dangerous in its operation, and he had worked on this machine two days when, at four o’clock in the afternoon, he was put to work on another type of…
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- Bradbury v. City of South NorwalkSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1907
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