Green v. Tarr
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two ACTIONS OE TORT by the same plaintiff, one against his employer and the other against the owners of the factory building in Lynn in which the plaintiff was employed, for personal injuries sustained by him in October, 1903, when he was twenty years of age, while he was going from one floor to another on a freight elevator maintained in the factory building.
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Two ACTIONS OE TORT by the same plaintiff, one against his employer and the other against the owners of the factory building in Lynn in which the plaintiff was employed, for personal injuries sustained by him in October, 1903, when he was twenty years of age, while he was going from one floor to another on a freight elevator maintained in the factory building. Writs dated respectively January 16, 1904, and March 15,1909. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Stevens, J. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, which is described in the opinion, the judge ordered a…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
These are two actions, one against the plaintiff’s employer and the other against the owners of the building where the plaintiff worked, to recover for an injury received by him while riding upon an elevator. The elevator was for the carriage of freight from the level of the street to the fifth floor and the intervening floors of the building. It was designed to take a load of three thousand pounds in addition to its own weight. Its rate of speed was from forty-five to fifty feet per minute. The platform was about five feet square. All these *113facts were put in evidence by the plaintiff and…
2Cited by1 opinion
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