Angelico v. L. H. Shattuck, Inc.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. At the time the accident happened, the defendants, who are shipbuilders, were finishing a ship tied up to their wharf and employed the intestate, a boy of fourteen, as a timekeeper and water-boy. His work took him to all parts of the ship.
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Case, for causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. At the time the accident happened, the defendants, who are shipbuilders, were finishing a ship tied up to their wharf and employed the intestate, a boy of fourteen, as a timekeeper and water-boy. His work took him to all parts of the ship. There was a hatch or well amidships about fifteen feet square, extending from the boat deck to the hold, with openings for doors on the bridge deck on both sides of the ship, and a runway from door to door composed of 4" x 4" hard pine timbers. A witness,…
1Opinion of the CourtYoung, J.
There is no merit in the defendants’ contention that it must be found the timbers of which the runway was composed were suitable for that purpose and in their proper places at the time the accident happened, for while a witness testified to these facts, there was other evidence tending to prove that the timbers were unsuitable and that one was separated a considerable distance from the others. But if it were conceded that the timbers were suitable and in their proper places, it could not be said the court erred when it submitted the issue of the defendants’ fault to the jury, for it cannot be…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Buell v. Berlin Mills Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1913
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