Connolly v. Eldredge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by having her band caught between the rollers of a steam ironing machine, known as a “ mangle.” Trial in the Superior Court, before Bishop, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in • substance as follows.
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Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by having her band caught between the rollers of a steam ironing machine, known as a “ mangle.” Trial in the Superior Court, before Bishop, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in • substance as follows. There was evidence tending to show that the plaintiff was employed by the defendants to starch articles of clothing in a laundry in Boston, and that she had worked in the laundry some three or four weeks before she was injured. The plaintiff testified that, up to the day of the injury, her work had been to do starching; that in this…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
The danger to fingers from two cylinders in contact with each other, and seen to be revolving inwardly, is obvious to any person of ordinary powers, and plainly was understood by the plaintiff. Crowley v. Pacific Mills, 148 Mass. 228. In Patnode v. Warren Cotton Mills, 157 Mass. 283, 289, it might have been found that the plaintiff could not see the revolving rolls by which he was hurt. In the present case, if there had been no guard across the shelf of the mangle, the plaintiff would have acted at her peril. But the guard did not convert the mangle into a trap. It manifestly was not intended…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Crowley v. Pacific MillsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- Patnode v. Warren Cotton MillsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
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