Hyde v. Booth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort afc common law and under R. L. c. 106 by the administratrix of the estate of Lawrence Hyde, a longshoreman, being also his widow, against a stevedore employing him, for causing the death and conscious suffering of the plaintiff’s intestate, with three counts described in the opinion. Writ dated February 1, 1901. In the Superior Court Fox, J. ordered a verdict for the defendant ; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
An examination of the bill of exceptions discloses no cause of action against the defendant, and the order of the judge of the Superior Court directing a verdict for the defendant was right.
The evidence shows that the plaintiff’s intestate was a longshoreman in the employ of the defendant, a stevedore; and that the accident happened through a section of one of the hatches of a vessel in which he was working being too short. If the section was placed in position in a certain way, it would not bear any weight upon it. The intestate and one of his fellow workmen placed it in position, the…
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