Cutcliffe v. Harry D. McIntosh Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiffs while in the employ of the defendant Harry D. McIntosh Company on February 19, 1912, (before the workmen’s compensation act took effect) with a declaration, as amended, containing a count at common law and a count under the employers’ liability act.
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Two actions of tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiffs while in the employ of the defendant Harry D. McIntosh Company on February 19, 1912, (before the workmen’s compensation act took effect) with a declaration, as amended, containing a count at common law and a count under the employers’ liability act. Writs dated May 29 and July 12, 1912, respectively; also Two actions OF tort, originally against Anthony D. Hall, George B. Hall, Frank G. Hall and George Gardner Hall, but before trial discontinued against all the defendants excepting George Gardner Hall, by the same employees…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
These actions are to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiffs by falling from a staging on which they were working in the billiard room of the Adams House, Boston. The cases will be considered together. The defendants are the Harry D. McIntosh Company, the plaintiffs’ employer, and George G. Hall, proprietor of the Adams House.
It was necessary to repair a portion of the ceiling, and the house carpenter, one Vatcher, in the employ of Hall, built a staging about five feet high above the floor of the billiard room. It rested on six uprights, five feet apart, to which the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Colton v. RichardsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1878
- McCann v. KennedyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
- Hall v. BatesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
- Pettingill v. William Porter & Son, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Noonan v. FoleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
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