McIntyre v. Converse

The injury to the plaintiff occurred on land belonging to the Mexican Oil Company in East Boston, for which company the defendants were constructing oil tank foundations., In connection with this work logs, from fifty to sixty feet long and tapering from fourteen inches thick at the butt to six or more inches at the small end, were brought to the railroad siding on flat cars, and rolled off the cars upon the adjoining land of the oil company, at the foot of the slight railroad embankment. About two hundred feet away, on a lighter in Chelsea Creek, was an engine, derrick and boom. A wire…