Vaisbord v. Nashua Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for negligence. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the January term, 1907, of the superior court by -Stone, J., on the defendants’ exception to the denial of their motion for a nonsuit. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to prove the following facts: She was injured Monday forenoon, that being the first day of her employment by the defendants.
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Case, for negligence. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the January term, 1907, of the superior court by -Stone, J., on the defendants’ exception to the denial of their motion for a nonsuit. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to prove the following facts: She was injured Monday forenoon, that being the first day of her employment by the defendants. On the previous Friday other employees of the defendants erected a staging over the machine on which the plaintiff was set at work. The staging was made of two-inch planks supported by wooden horses eight or ten feet high,…
1Opinion of the CourtYoung, J.
The plaintiff complains of the defendants’ failure to fasten the planks to the horses and the horses to the floor in such a manner that neither the vibration of the mill, nor the acts of her fellow-servants, nor both of these causes combined, would cause a plank to fall on her; and the defendants say it cannot be found (1) that they were responsible for this condition of their premises, or (2) that they were in fault for it, or (3) that their fault was the legal cause of the injury.
1. The test to determine whether it can be found that the defendants were responsible for the condition of their…
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