Gile v. J. W. Bishop Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tout, for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant’s servants. Writ dated March 27, 1902. At the trial in the Superior Court before Lawton, J., the following facts appeared: The plaintiff was, and had been for twelve years, master mechanic of the City Manufacturing Corporation, a corporation engaged in the manufacture of cotton yarn in the city of New Bedford.
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Tout, for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant’s servants. Writ dated March 27, 1902. At the trial in the Superior Court before Lawton, J., the following facts appeared: The plaintiff was, and had been for twelve years, master mechanic of the City Manufacturing Corporation, a corporation engaged in the manufacture of cotton yarn in the city of New Bedford. The defendant, under an independent contract, was engaged in the erection of an addition to the picker house of the corporation. The picker house referred to adjoined one of the main mills.…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowbtoh, C. J.
The evidence tended to show that the defendant’s servants piled timbers of North Carolina hard pine, whose transverse dimensions were eighteen by twelve inches and which were of various lengths, making their weight from two to two and one half tons each, along the side of a driveway in the yard of the City Manufacturing Corporation. They were piled upon blocking, some of which was very short. These men were engaged in squaring and chamfering the ends of the timbers, and *415as they finished one they rolled it over and started on the next. While the plaintiff, the master mechanic of the City…
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