Garland v. Townsend
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort by the same plaintiff against different defendants for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on December 23, 1911, when, as an electrician in the employ of the Otis Elevator Company, he was engaged in installing a receptacle for electric lights at the top of a freight elevator in the Crosby Building, which was then in process of construction and was numbered 480 on Washington Street in Boston.
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Two actions of tort by the same plaintiff against different defendants for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on December 23, 1911, when, as an electrician in the employ of the Otis Elevator Company, he was engaged in installing a receptacle for electric lights at the top of a freight elevator in the Crosby Building, which was then in process of construction and was numbered 480 on Washington Street in Boston. Writs dated July 15, 1912. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Quinn, J. It was admitted that the defendant Whitney was the general contractor in charge…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The plaintiff when at work as an electrician fitting a receptacle for light to a freight elevator at the second floor of the building, was struck in the face and his eyes injured by mortar falling from the hocks * or trowels of plasterers at work in the penthouse at the top of the elevator well. While the jury could have found that the plaintiff saw the men in the penthouse, which covered an area twice the size of the wellway, yet they further could find, that from his former experience when *299working under similar conditions, as shown by his testimony, he had no reason to apprehend any danger…
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