Hamel v. Burgess Sulphite Fibre Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for personal injuries sustained by tbe plaintiff while in or the plain-the superior to the denial a verdict m the defendants’ employ. Trial by jury and verdict tiff.
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Case, for personal injuries sustained by tbe plaintiff while in or the plain-the superior to the denial a verdict m the defendants’ employ. Trial by jury and verdict tiff. Transferred from the December term, 1906, oi court by Stone, J., upon the defendants’ exceptions of their motions for a nonsuit and the direction of their favor, In that section of the defendants’ mill where : the plaintiff worked there were six distinct lines of screens, constituting a part of a paper machine. The screens were boxes four or five feet wide and from two to four feet deep, which stood' on legs and were placed…
1Opinion of the CourtBingham, J.
At the time he received his injury the plaintiff liad worked in the defendants’ mill for three years, and upon and about that part of a paper machine known as the screens for eighteen months. He was a young man of average intelligence and possessed of all his faculties. It was his duty to assist in starting up the shafts which run beneath the screens, when for any reason they stopped. This work required him to go between the screens and attach a wrench to the dead shaft, and lift or press down upon the wrench, according as the top of the shaft was to revolve from or toward him. He had done…
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