Connolly v. Booth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by a workman against a stevedore by whom he was employed for personal injuries incurred on July 29, 1903, in the manner described in the opinion, with counts at common law and under the employers’ liability act. Writ dated October 31, 1903. In the Superior Court Harris, J., at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence ordered a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The plaintiff while assisting to unload iron girders or beams from the hold of a steamship, had the toes of one foot broken, and lost a finger by a beam falling on him after it had been lifted out and was being moved across the wharf on trucks. A verdict having been ordered for the defendant at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, the ruling now is said by the defendant to have been right, as there was no evidence at common law of the defendant’s negligence, or, if the foreman who could have been found to have been acting as superintendent was at fault, his carelessness was the act of a…
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