142 Mass. 431
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 13, 1886
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1886-10-13
Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ, through the alleged neglect of the defendant to provide safe and suitable machinery and tools, and to give suitable and proper instructions as to the manner of doing the work required to be done by the plaintiff at the defendant’s mill.
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Decided 1886-10-13
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1940
8 state decisions
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¶1It is the duty of a master, who sets a servant to work in a place of danger, to give him such notice and instruction as are reasonably required by the youth, or inexperience, or want of capacity of the servant. This duty is not confined to cases where the servant is “ a man of manifest imbecility,” and the sixth instruction requested by the defendant was rightly refused.
¶2Exceptions overruled.