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Towne v. Waltham Watch Co.

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided January 7, 1924PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.

The plaintiff, an employee of the defendant, was injured in the course of his employment by stepping on a loose stone “ about as large as two hen’s eggs,” upon one of the steps leading down from a concrete platform to the boiler house court on the defendant’s premises. The defendant was not a subscriber under the workmen’s compensation act.

There was evidence that the plaintiff had been a watchman for the defendant; that in 1919, he ceased to labor at this particular work and was placed in other employment, part of which consisted in removing cans of benzine from the concrete platform to the…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Anjou v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
  2. Stevens v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
  3. Downing v. Jordan Marsh Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
  4. Zugbie v. J. R. Whipple Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1918
  5. Walsh v. Turner Centre Dairying Ass'nMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Greenfield v. FreedmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1952
  2. Agnew v. FranksMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1926
  3. Mascary v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1927
  4. Cartoof v. F. W. Woolworth Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1928
  5. Bornstein v. R. H. White Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1927

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