Hasty v. Sears
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by being struck by an elevator in the defendant’s building. Trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., who directed a verdict for the defendant, and reported the case for the determination of this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The plaintiff cannot recover if he was a fellow servant with the boy who negligently lowered the elevator car upon him while he was at work in the elevator well upon a stepladder standing on the bottom of the well. The plaintiff was a *124carpenter, employed by the hour by the firm of C. A. Noyes and Company. They told him that there was some work to be done at the defendant’s building, and that the superintendent of the building would tell him what was to be done. He went to the building, and the superintendent instructed him what work was to be done, namely, that the framework of the elevator…
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