Illingsworth v. Boston Electric Light Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries resulting from contact with a wire charged with electricity. Writ dated January 9, 1892. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Aldrich, J., there was evidence tending to show that at the time of the accident, which happened on May 11, 1891, the plaintiff was employed as a lineman in the fire alarm department of the city of Boston, and that, acting under orders of the foreman of the department and in the course of his duties, he ascended an…
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Tort, for personal injuries resulting from contact with a wire charged with electricity. Writ dated January 9, 1892. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Aldrich, J., there was evidence tending to show that at the time of the accident, which happened on May 11, 1891, the plaintiff was employed as a lineman in the fire alarm department of the city of Boston, and that, acting under orders of the foreman of the department and in the course of his duties, he ascended an upright frame structure owned by the defendant erected upon the roof of the building numbered 114 Sudbury Street in…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
The exceptions recite that the court ruled that there was no evidence for the jury, and ordered a verdict for the defendant. The questions argued relate to the liability of the defendant on the evidence, under. Pub. Sts. c. 109, § 12, and St. 1883', c. 221 ; under St. 1890, c.' 404, § 1; and at common law.
There is no evidence of any liability under Pub. Sts. c. 109, § 12, and St. 1883, c. 221. Hector v. Boston Electric Light Co., ante, 558.
We have no occasion to consider whether it was the intention of St. 1890, c. 404, to give a private person a cause of action for any violation of the first…
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