Pickwick v. McCauliff
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained on July 26, 1904, at West Boylston while the plaintiff was at work as a civil engineer and inspector for the metropolitan water and sewerage commissioners of the Commonwealth.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained on July 26, 1904, at West Boylston while the plaintiff was at work as a civil engineer and inspector for the metropolitan water and sewerage commissioners of the Commonwealth. Writ dated January 14, 1905. At the trial in the Superior Court before Bell, J. the following facts appeared in evidence: Before the accident the defendant had been awarded a contract which provided for the construction of a masonry arch bridge over the Nashua Eiver near the village of West Boylston. The plaintiff was the resident engineer in charge of this and all other work at West…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
This is an action of tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on July 26,- 1904, at West Boylston *74while at work as a civil engineer and inspector for the metropolitan water and sewerage board. There was a verdict for the plaintiff and the case is here on exceptions by the defendant to the refusal of the presiding judge to give certain instructions that were requested. The instructions requested were in substance that oh all the evidence the plaintiff could not recover, that he was not in the exercise of due care, that he assumed the risk, that he was a mere volunteer or licensee,…
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