McLaughlin v. Camden Iron Works

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Collins, J.

The plaintiff sought recovery for personal injuries alleged to be due to the defendant’s negligence. The declaration averred that, while in the employment of the defendant as a riveter, the plaintiff was ordered by the defendant to leave his employment and assist in raising a large frame of great weight, and that by reason of the defendant’s careless omission to supply and use, in raising the frame, the means necessary to raise the same and hold it in place while being raised, it fell and injured the plaintiff.

At the trial the plaintiff was…