Droney v. Doherty
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two ACTIONS OP TORT by workmen in the defendants’ iron foundry in Lowell for injuries from the fall of a freight elevator on which the plaintiffs were standing. Writs dated July 9, 1902. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Aiken, J. The judge refused in each case to order a verdict for the defendants and submitted the cases to the jury.
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Two ACTIONS OP TORT by workmen in the defendants’ iron foundry in Lowell for injuries from the fall of a freight elevator on which the plaintiffs were standing. Writs dated July 9, 1902. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Aiken, J. The judge refused in each case to order a verdict for the defendants and submitted the cases to the jury. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in each case, in the sum of $165 for Droney and in the sum of $1,375 for Briggs. The defendants alleged exceptions in both cases.
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The defendants, among other appliances used by them in their business as iron founders, ran an elevator by electricity, to raise scrap iron from the level of the foundry yard to a platform over which it was wheeled to the door of a blast furnace. It ran in a well twelve feet in depth, was operated by means of a shipping cord, and stopped automatically, at the platform or at the yard, by stops placed upon the cord. For the purpose of preventing accidents, it was provided with safety clutches that were devised to catch in the rails or ratchets placed on the vertical posts or uprights of the…
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