McKinnon v. Norcross
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by the alleged negligence of the defendants while he was in their employment.
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Tort for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by the alleged negligence of the defendants while he was in their employment. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Barker, J., the plaintiff testified that he was a carpenter, and was at work in May, 1887, for the defendants, who were a firm of contractors doing business all over the country under the name of Norcross Brothers; that they were then engaged in the building of a railroad station at" Allston; that he was hired by John Bernard, in charge of the job, to work upon the building; that he had worked for Norcross Brothers all…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
It was the duty of the defendants to procure competent and proper workmen in the business in which the plaintiff was engaged, and to provide for them suitable tools and appliances, so far as that could be done by the exercise of ordinary care and diligence. The plaintiff affirms, and the defendants deny, that the injury to the plaintiff resulted from neglect of this duty. There was no evidence that the foreman in charge of the work was not a proper person to be intrusted with it. The plaintiff testified that he had known him a long time as a foreman, and had worked under him all the summer…
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