Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court February 29, 1896 (Quigley v. Thomas G. Plant Co.)

Field, C. J.

This is an action of tort for personal injuries. The plaintiff at the time of receiving his injuries was between twenty-five and twenty-six years of age, and for about two years before he went to work for the defendant had worked upon a machine known as the Bresnahan dieing-out (or dinking) machine, which was a machine in common use in the shoe factories in Lynn, and was similar to