Nash v. Nashua Iron & Steel Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for injuries from the defendants’ negligence. The defendants are a corporation carrying on the business of manufacturing steel and iron. The business is conducted in three departments, of one of which, known as the steel department, where the steel is cast into heavy slabs or ingots, Hibbard had the oversight and management, as foreman, under Swain, superintendent of the whole.
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Case, for injuries from the defendants’ negligence. The defendants are a corporation carrying on the business of manufacturing steel and iron. The business is conducted in three departments, of one of which, known as the steel department, where the steel is cast into heavy slabs or ingots, Hibbard had the oversight and management, as foreman, under Swain, superintendent of the whole. The plaintiff was in the employment of the defendants, and worked in the casting-room of the steel department. While he was punching covers from the moulds in which the steel was cast, near a pile of cast-steel…
1Opinion of the CourtAlken, J.
The ground of the defendants’ motion for a non-suit and a verdict directed by the court was, that there was no competent evidence that the plaintiff’s injury resulted from the defendants’ want of care.
The accident happened from want of care in piling the steel ingots, or because they were piled upon a piece of boiler-plate, which made the pile of uneven stability. If the ingots fell by reason of irregularity or other want of skill or care in piling them, the carelessness was that of the plaintiff’s fellow-servants in the same employment, and for that he cannot recover if reasonable care was…
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- Lawler v. Androscoggin RailroadSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1873
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- Nourie v. TheobaldSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1896
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