Mann v. Moore Spinning Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries caused by the plaintiff slipping upon some soap on the floor of the defendant’s spinning factory where he was employed.
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Tort for personal injuries caused by the plaintiff slipping upon some soap on the floor of the defendant’s spinning factory where he was employed. Writ dated August 6,1908. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Hardy, J. It appeared from the plaintiff’s testimony that he had been working in the defendant’s factory for about two months at the time of the accident “ running the French gill boxes,” and that the room where he worked was light; that along one side of the room and about thirty feet from the plaintiff was a “ backwasher,” which was a series of troughs filled, some with…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
It is settled by previous decisions that there was no aspect of the evidence put in by the plaintiff which entitled him to go to the jury. Murphy v. American Rubber Co. 159 Mass. 266. Kleinest v. Kunhardt, 160 Mass. 230. Feely v. Pearson Cordage Co. 161 Mass. 426. Thompson v. Norman *343Paper Co. 169 Mass. 416. Pene v. Arnold Print Works, 181 Mass. 560. McRea v. Rood Rubber Co. 187 Mass. 326. McTiernan v. American Woolen Co. 197 Mass. 238. Goudie v. Foster, 202 Mass. 226.
Exceptions overruled.
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Murphy v. American Rubber Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Feely v. Pearson Cordage Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
- Kleinest v. KunhardtMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Thompson v. Norman Paper Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
- Goudie v. FosterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
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