Dow v. McHugh
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort against Thomas McHugh and Michael McHugh, co-partners doing business under the name Amesbury Optical Company, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on June 11, 1910, while in the employ of the defendants and at work upon a glass grinding machine in the defendants’ factory, the plaintiff being about seventeen years of age and inexperienced with machinery, and the defendants being alleged to have failed in their duty to give the plaintiff proper instructions…
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Tort against Thomas McHugh and Michael McHugh, co-partners doing business under the name Amesbury Optical Company, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on June 11, 1910, while in the employ of the defendants and at work upon a glass grinding machine in the defendants’ factory, the plaintiff being about seventeen years of age and inexperienced with machinery, and the defendants being alleged to have failed in their duty to give the plaintiff proper instructions and to warn him of the dangers incident to his employment. Writ dated July 16,1910. In the Superior Court the case was…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The grinding machine on which the plaintiff worked consisted of a frame structure into which was set a large water-tight box about four feet square and eighteen inches deep. Above this box was erected a horizontal steel disk two feet in diameter, which was connected with an upright shaft that passed down through the box to certain framework below. Arranged over the disk was a hopper from which sand and water trickled upon the revolving disk in the process of grinding the glass. Close to the left side of the machine there stood another water-tight box about four feet long and two and one half…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Crimmins v. BoothMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- Murphy v. American Rubber Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Bagley v. Wonderland Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
- Glass v. Hazen Confectionery Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
- Halley v. Nashua River Paper Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
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