Welch v. Corrigan

It is conceded that there is no cause of action under the so-called “safe-place” statute. Plowever, farmers are not relieved from the duties imposed upon them by the common law.

Plaintiff alleges that the revolving shaft was a square shaft with unnoticeable projections therefrom so as to be likely to engage clothing that might come in contact therewith, and that the shaft and the projections therefrom were entirely unguarded. Defendant has asserted that if these projections were unnoticeable to plaintiff, who put the attachment from the tractor to the spraying machine and handled the shaft in…