Curran v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff through the alleged negligence of the defendant city, its officers or agents.
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Tort for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff through the alleged negligence of the defendant city, its officers or agents. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Barker, J., the plaintiff offered to prove, that, in September, 1888, he was convicted of the offence of refusing to support his family, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the workhouse or house of industry established b.y the defendant^ city on Deer Island in Boston Harbor; that the city maintained gas works upon the island for the manufacture of gas for use in and about its various buildings there, as well as a…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The plaintiff was an inmate of the workhouse or house of industry belonging to the city of Boston, situated on Deer Island, having been convicted of the misdemeanor of not supporting his family, and having been legally sentenced to confinement there. He was injured while engaged in unloading coal, and it must be assumed was prepared to prove that he himself was in the exercise of due care, and that the officers and servants employed in this institution were negligent. The single question presented is whether these officers and servants — engaged in conducting the work incident to the…
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- Emery v. City of LowellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
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