Connors v. Morton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, while in the defendants’ employ, by falling down the well of an elevator, operated by an engine, in a building in process of erection by the defendants. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Richardson, J., the jury returned a verdict for the defendants; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
"Knowlton, J.
The first and principal exception before us is to the refusal of the presiding justice to allow the jury to consider evidence of previous specific acts of negligence on the part of the engineer, known to the defendants’ superintendent, as bearing on the question whether the defendants were negligent in setting the plaintiff at work in an unsafe place, or in failing to warn him of the danger to which he was exposed in that place.
The plaintiff’s counsel in their brief concede that the ruling was correct as applied to the first count of the amended declaration, which seeks to charge…
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