Morrison v. Burgess Sulphite Fibre Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for personal injuries. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff, whose evidence tended to prove that on April 3, 1899,. he was a man of average intelligence, thirty-three years old, and employed by tbe defendants in their mill to set up and repair machinery. His work took him to every part of the mill, and on that day he, with others, was in the fourth story putting up a bridge-tree.
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Case, for personal injuries. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff, whose evidence tended to prove that on April 3, 1899,. he was a man of average intelligence, thirty-three years old, and employed by tbe defendants in their mill to set up and repair machinery. His work took him to every part of the mill, and on that day he, with others, was in the fourth story putting up a bridge-tree. This was a stick of Georgia pine ten inches square and fourteen feet long, supported on timbers placed about ten inches below the ceiling which was seven and one half feet from the floor. One end of the…
1Opinion of the CourtYoung, J.
The plaintiff says the defendants failed to perform the duty the law imposed upon them for his benefit, both in respect of furnishing him a safe place in which to work, and suitable tools and appliances for his use. Although it is the master’s duty to use ordinary care to keep his premises hi such condition that his servants can perform their work in safety, or to notify them of -dangers to which they are exposed, and to furnish them with tools and appliances suitable for the purposes for which they are provided, or to notify them of the defects in those furnished, there was no evidence that…
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