O'Keefe v. National Folding Box & Paper Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff through the alleged negligence of the defendant; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, George W. Wheeler, J., upon defendant’s demurrer to the complaint; the court sustained the demurrer, adjudged the complaint insufficient, and the plaintiff appealed.
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Action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff through the alleged negligence of the defendant; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, George W. Wheeler, J., upon defendant’s demurrer to the complaint; the court sustained the demurrer, adjudged the complaint insufficient, and the plaintiff appealed. The eomplaint was as follows : “1. On April 7th, 1893, the defendant corporation was, and for many years last past has been, engaged in the making and manufacture of paper boxes. “ 2. On April 7th, 1893, said John J. O’Keefe was in the…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The complaint alleges that the plaintiff, who was but nineteen years old, while in the employment of the defendant as a feeder of a-folding press, supplying it with paper or pasteboard, was directed temporarily to leave that *44employment, and was negligently put to 'work in placing colored paper, saturated witli poison, into a -box greatly heated with steam, and then taking it out again, when softened, for more easy folding ; that he did not know the paper was poisoned, or of the effect upon his health that his so handling it would have; that the steam and heat of the box caused the poison to…
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- Hayden v. Smithville Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1861
- Farrell v. Waterbury Horse R. R. Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1891
- McElligott v. RandolphSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1891
- Bailey v. BussingSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1860
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