Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court June 20, 1885 (McGee v. Boston Cordage Co.)

Field, J.

The exceptions describe a machine of such a kind that the fact that it became clogged with the hemp was not necessarily evidence of negligence on the part of anybody. No evidence is recited in the exceptions that the machine was not a good one of its bind, and in good order up to the time when the “ hemp became entangled, and passed over the drum and adhered to the teeth underneath.