Olsen v. Andrews
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, while employed by the defendant in repairing a bridge, by being run over by a derrick car. Trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., who directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
At the close of the testimony the presiding justice ruled that there was no evidence to warrant a verdict for the plaintiff, and directed a verdict for the defendant.
There was evidence that the plaintiff was in the exercise of due care. According to the testimony all the men employed by the defendant boarded on the west side of the Hudson River, while their work was upon a bridge crossing the river, and a part of it at the east end of the bridge. The only way from the plaintiff’s work to his boarding place was over the bridge on the northerly or west bound track, which was given up by the…
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