Legal Opinion

Osborne v. Morgan

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided January 10, 1881PublishedCited by 65 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.

The declaration is in tort, and the material allegations of fact, which are admitted by the demurrer, are that while the plaintiff was at work as a carpenter in the establishment of a manufacturing corporation, putting up by direction of the corporation certain partitions in a room in which the corporation was conducting the business of making wire, the defendants, one the superintendent and the others agents and servants of the corporation, being employed in that business, negligently, and without regard to the safety of persons rightfully in the room, placed a tackle-block and chains upon…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Coughtry v. . Globe Woolen Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1874
  2. Barbaroux v. BarkerCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1862
  3. Mulchey v. Methodist Religious SocietyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1878
  4. Norton v. SewallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
  5. Holden v. Fitchburg RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1880

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3Cited by65 opinions

  1. Gussie Fox v. Dallas Hotel Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1922
  2. Orcutt v. Century Building Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1907
  3. Southern Railway Co. v. GrizzleSupreme Court of Georgia · 1906
  4. Powers v. Massachusetts Homœopathic HospitalCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1901
  5. Dallas Hotel Co. v. FoxCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1917

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