Buell v. Berlin Mills Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while in the defendants’ employ. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the April term, 1912, of the superior court by Wallace, C. J., on the defendants’ exceptions to the denial of their motions for a nonsuit and the direction of a verdict in their favor.
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
The plaintiff, while wheeling a barrow in the defendants’ service, upon a runway seven feet above the ground, fell from the runway and was injured. There was evidence that the runway was constructed for the plaintiff’s use by the defendants before he was put to work upon it; that it was improperly constructed in that it was only two feet wide, when a width of four or five feet was necessary for safety, and that it was not as firm and rigid as it should have been; that the plaintiff had no experience in such work and was injured after he had been at work about thirty minutes. Upon this…
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