Burke v. Boston & Maine Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by a workman in the employ of George F. Hadley, a contractor, against the Boston and Maine Railroad for personal injuries incurred in the manner described in the opinion on January 14,1905, by being struck by a car of the defendant while the plaintiff was working upon a staging with one Ogden, a fellow workman, in hanging a door that was out of repair on a manure shed which was part of a building built by D. Whiting and Sons on land leased by them from the defendant and…
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Tort by a workman in the employ of George F. Hadley, a contractor, against the Boston and Maine Railroad for personal injuries incurred in the manner described in the opinion on January 14,1905, by being struck by a car of the defendant while the plaintiff was working upon a staging with one Ogden, a fellow workman, in hanging a door that was out of repair on a manure shed which was part of a building built by D. Whiting and Sons on land leased by them from the defendant and adjoining a freight yard of the defendant in that .part of Boston called Charlestown, the staging having been placed by…
1Opinion of the Court
Knowlton, O. J.
The plaintiff was repairing a door, of a building belonging to D. Whiting and Sons, standing on land leased to them for ten years by the defendant corporation. The building covered nearly all of the leased land, and the plaintiff with a fellow workman erected a staging by the use of a stepladder, a wooden horse and a plank, on other land of the defendant, for his convenience in doing the work. A side track of the defendant, nearly parallel to the line of this building, ran so near the staging that a car moving along it would strike the staging. The defendant’s servants had no…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Redigan v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
- Chenery v. Fitchburg RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Johnson v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1878
- Bachant v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Turner v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
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