Hanley v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for injuries to one of the plaintiff’s hands from a car of • the defendant running over his fingers, when he was working in a trench in the employ of the Boston Gas Light Company and, having lost his footing on a slippery gas main, had clutched at one of the rails of the defendant’s track to save himself from falling into the trench, as described in the opinion.
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Tort, for injuries to one of the plaintiff’s hands from a car of • the defendant running over his fingers, when he was working in a trench in the employ of the Boston Gas Light Company and, having lost his footing on a slippery gas main, had clutched at one of the rails of the defendant’s track to save himself from falling into the trench, as described in the opinion. Writ dated June 2, 1905. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Be Couroy, J., who reported it for determination by this court as stated in the opinion. The case was argued at the bar in December, 1908, before Knowlton,…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
This is an action of tort to recover damages for injuries caused by a car of the defendant passing over and partially cutting off two fingers of one hand of the plaintiff’s, while he was in a trench helping to repair a gas main. In the Superior Court at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence a verdict was ordered for the defendant, and at the plaintiff’s request the case has been reported to this court, with an agreement, that if the evidence would justify a verdict for him, judgment in his favor is to be entered for the sum of $1,000 ; otherwise the verdict is to stand.
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