Hoffman v. Holt
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff’s intestate, in the manner described in the opinion, while in the defendant’s employ, the original plaintiff having been the intestate, who died while the action was pending, the administratrix being substituted as plaintiff by amendment.
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Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff’s intestate, in the manner described in the opinion, while in the defendant’s employ, the original plaintiff having been the intestate, who died while the action was pending, the administratrix being substituted as plaintiff by amendment. Writ dated April 4, 1901. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Gaskill, J., who at the close of the evidence ordered a verdict for the defendant, and reported the case for determination by this court. If the plaintiff was entitled to go to the jury upon the evidence introduced, judgment was to…
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The plaintiff’s intestate was hurt by reason of the slipping of a ladder. At the time he and one other person only were at work and the particular tiding then in hand was the nailing of a cleat upon a ladder which they were to use in painting a roof. He was upon the ladder nailing the cleat, and the other person was holding the foot of the ladder. Both of these *573two persons were in the employment of the defendant as painters, and both were expected to paint; but Donovan the person who held the foot of the ladder and caused the accident by letting the ladder slip was in charge; and when the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Whittaker v. BentMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
- Adasken v. GilbertMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
- Flynn v. Boston Electric Light Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898
- Joseph v. George C. Whitney Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
- Riou v. Rockport Granite Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898
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- McPhee v. New England Structural Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Sarrisin v. S. Slater & SonsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- Buckley v. Dow Portable Electric Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Golien v. Susquehanna Coal Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1913
- Shugrue v. Providence Telephone Co.Supreme Court of Rhode Island · 1913