Boyd v. Taylor
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries incurred on October 30, 1901, while in the employ of the defendants, manufacturers of sausages doing business in Boston under the name of Park’s Sausage and Provision Company.
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Tort for personal injuries incurred on October 30, 1901, while in the employ of the defendants, manufacturers of sausages doing business in Boston under the name of Park’s Sausage and Provision Company. Writ dated April 14, 1903. At the trial in the Superior Court before Bell, J. the plaintiff testified that he was born on December 20, 1878, in Annadale, New Brunswick, a town of about three hundred inhabitants, and worked on his father’s farm until he was eighteen years old; that his work consisted principally of driving horses and he had had nothing to do with any machinery; that when…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
Until the day of the accident, the plaintiff, who had been hired by the defendants as a common laborer in their sausage factory, had not worked at the meat choppers, and from his evidence it appears that before his employment he was without experience in the use of any kind of machinery. In the preparation of the sausages the meat is run twice through the chopper. By the first process it is cut in large pieces; by the second the machine, after being properly adjusted, is run at a greater speed for the purpose of grinding the meat finer, after which the product is ready for use. While the…
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