Huddleston v. Lowell Machine Shop
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tout to recover for personal injuries caused by a defect in the floor of a room in the defendants’ machine shop. At the trial in this court, before Gray, J., the plaintiff testified : “ In February 1869 I was a watchman in the Lowell Machine Shop, and had been employed there for three or four years.
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Tout to recover for personal injuries caused by a defect in the floor of a room in the defendants’ machine shop. At the trial in this court, before Gray, J., the plaintiff testified : “ In February 1869 I was a watchman in the Lowell Machine Shop, and had been employed there for three or four years. At half past four every morning I had to slush the gears over the turbine wheel at one end of the room where the accident happened, and the main gears at the other end ; and occasionally the gears of two pumps, one on each side of the room. On February 1, 1869, after slushing the gears over the…
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, C. J.
From the nature of the case, it must happen that the subject of the liability of employer to his workman, who is accidentally injured while engaged in his service, will present itself to courts of law in a great variety of forms, for there are in almost every case some peculiar circumstances. The decisions are very numerous on this subject, both in this country and in England, but the general principles by which they are governed are well establishedP It is not necessary to advert tc the cases, for the principles are sufficiently stated in Gilman v. Eastern Railroad Co. 10 Allen, 233, and 13…
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