Fitzgerald v. Young
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained on July 29, 1911, when the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant, who was constructing a dam for the city of Holyoke at the White reservoir in that city. Writ dated December 13, 1911. The declaration contained five counts.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained on July 29, 1911, when the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant, who was constructing a dam for the city of Holyoke at the White reservoir in that city. Writ dated December 13, 1911. The declaration contained five counts. The first count was as follows: “And the plaintiff says that on or about the twenty-ninth day of July, 1911, he was in the employ of the defendant; that it was the duty of the defendant to give him sufficient instructions how to properly perform his duty as such employee; that it was the duty of the defendant to give him…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
About ten days before July 29, 1911, the plaintiff was hired to work as a laborer for the defendant, who was engaged in building a basin for a reservoir and dam. One Peck-ham, who hired the plaintiff, was the only superintendent of the defendant. The plaintiff testified that on the morning of the third day of his employment, “Mr. Peckham told me to go to. work for Mr. Monte and help him around the blacksmith shop as his helper, and I would be under Mr. Monte from then until I got further orders; ... he told me any instructions Mr. Monte should give me should be obeyed by me.” “I went right…
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