Conroy v. Morrill & Whiton Construction Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries incurred while in the employ of the defendant, a corporation engaged in doing the mason work of a coal pocket which was being constructed at the State House in Boston.
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Tort for personal injuries incurred while in the employ of the defendant, a corporation engaged in doing the mason work of a coal pocket which was being constructed at the State House in Boston. Writ dated October 10, 1902. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Holmes, J. together with an action brought by the same plaintiff against the G. W. and F. Smith Iron Company, which so far as material to the exceptions in that case is described ante, 468. The accident happened about ten o’clock in the forenoon of December 5,1901. The plaintiff, an experienced mason about twenty-six years of…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
This case was argued with the case of the same plaintiff against the G. W. and F. Smith Iron Company, ante, 468, but presents somewhat different questions. The defendant rested at the end of the plaintiff’s case, and excepted to the refusal of the presiding judge to order a verdict in its favor, and this presents the only question.
The plaintiff’s only contention as to negligence of the defendant is that there was evidence that the iron chain furnished by the defendant for hoisting the beams was unsafe and unsuitable for use with the small beam which fell and caused the accident, for the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Johnson v. Boston Tow-Boat Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
- Miller v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
- Carroll v. Metropolitan Coal Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Arnold v. Harrington Cutlery Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Ford v. Eastern Bridge & Structural Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
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