Hill v. Way

The plaintiff offered evidence that he was employed as a laborer by the proprietor of the Pease House, so-called, in Old Saybrook and was engaged with other employees in drawing certain iron rails from beneath the dining room of the hotel, which is on the west side of the public highway known as Bridge Street. A rope seven eighths of an inch in diameter, had been attached at one end to the rails, and at the other to the rear of a truck which crossed the road to the opposite side, thus drawing the rails from under the dining room. While the rope was thus across the road, the defendant drove…