Golden v. Ellis
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions by plaintiff. Action on the case to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendants, and caused by the alleged negligence of the defendants, and which injuries resulted in the loss of both of the plaintiff’s eyes. Plea, the general issue. Tried at the May term, 1907, Supreme Judicial Court, York County.
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On exceptions by plaintiff. Action on the case to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendants, and caused by the alleged negligence of the defendants, and which injuries resulted in the loss of both of the plaintiff’s eyes. Plea, the general issue. Tried at the May term, 1907, Supreme Judicial Court, York County. At the conclusion of the testimony offered by the plaintiff, the presiding Justice ordered a nonsuit and the plaintiff excepted. The case appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
This case comes to the Law Court on exceptions to the ruling of the presiding Justice ordering a. nonsuit op the plaintiff’s testimony.
*179In the fall of 1905, the defendants were engaged in building a stone bridge across the Mousam river at Kennebunk in pursuance of a contract with the Boston and Maine Railroad. The plaintiff was employed to work for the defendants primarily as a blacksmith to sharpen tools, and when not engaged in that capacity, he was to work "elsewhere as an all-round man.” On the morning of October 2, among the "all round” duties imposed upon him, he was directed by the…
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