Bouley v. Tilo Roofing Co.

The plaintiffs’ evidence tended to prove the following facts: In September, 1935, Henry J. Bouley and his wife employed the defendant to cover the outer walls of their house in Nashua with composition shingles. These shingles were nailed to laths, which in turn were fastened directly to the clapboards. In order to nail the shingles flat, it was necessary to remove an ornamental molding, and in the course of this work pieces of the molding, with nails exposed, were thrown to the ground.

Just before noon on the day of the accident, Mrs. Bouley called her children to dinner. They were five in…