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DOWNS v. GULF & WESTERN MFG. CO., INC.

Civ. A. No. 81-1386-G.

677 F.Supp. 661 (1987)

Elizabeth DOWNS, Plaintiff, v. GULF & WESTERN MANUFACTURING CO., INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

May 27, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Dailey, Jr., Sloane and Walsh, Neil Sugarman & David A. Angier, Sugarman & Sugarman, Boston, Mass., for plaintiff.

Anil Madan, Rosann Madan, Madan & Madan, Boston, Mass., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER GRANTING A NEW TRIAL

GARRITY, District Judge.

The plaintiff, Elizabeth Downs, worked for a time as a punch press operator. She brought suit against the defendant, Gulf & Western Mfg. Co., after one of her hands was inadvertently caught and severely damaged in a press's powerful stroking mechanism. She sustained the injury in 1980 while operating a press made in 1944 by E.W. Bliss Co., formerly a separate entity and now a division...

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