Marshall v. Norcross
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort against Orlando W. Norcross, a general building contractor, doing business under the name of Norcross Brothers, for personal injuries incurred in the manner stated in the opinion between ten and eleven o’clock in the forenoon of November 11, 1901, while the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant working in the construction of a ten story steel framed brick and stone building, called the Walker Building, on the corner of Boylston Street and Boylston Place in…
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Tort against Orlando W. Norcross, a general building contractor, doing business under the name of Norcross Brothers, for personal injuries incurred in the manner stated in the opinion between ten and eleven o’clock in the forenoon of November 11, 1901, while the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant working in the construction of a ten story steel framed brick and stone building, called the Walker Building, on the corner of Boylston Street and Boylston Place in Boston. Writ dated February 15, 1902. At the trial in the Superior Court before Bishop, J. the defendant in his first six…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
The plaintiff, an employee of the defendant, was injured by the fall of an angle iron upon him while at work upon the fifth story of a ten story building in process of construction. The angle iron was being removed from a certain iron girder to which it had been attached, and the jury would have been justified in finding that the fall was due to the negligent conduct of the men who removed it and who were the fellow servants of the plaintiff.
It appeared that no flooring had been placed between the seventh and fifth floors as required by St. 1901, c. 166, and it was contended that this fact…
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