Shea v. Glendale Elastic Fabrics Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by lead poisoning from inhaling dust containing white lead, coming from the rubber thread on which he worked in the defendant’s mill. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Mason, C. J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions. The material facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The only exception in this case was to the admission of certain testimony on the question whether the plaintiff’s illness was caused by lead poisoning from inhaling dust containing white lead, coming from the rubber thread on which he worked in the defendant’s mill, or whether it arose from other causes. This question may be divided into two branches; first, the inquiry whether the defendant’s mill was a place in which one would be likely or liable to be poisoned by inhaling lead in the form of dust, and secondly, if so, whether, the plaintiff was so poisoned. The plaintiff was allowed to…
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