Boccella v. Holt-Fairchild Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort under St. 1909, c. 514, § 127, by a laborer employed by a construction company engaged in building the Young Men’s Christian Association building in Chelsea, for personal injuries sustained on July 22, 1910, in the employ of the defendant and alleged to have been caused by the negligence of a person in the service of the defendant entrusted with and exercising superintendence.
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Tort under St. 1909, c. 514, § 127, by a laborer employed by a construction company engaged in building the Young Men’s Christian Association building in Chelsea, for personal injuries sustained on July 22, 1910, in the employ of the defendant and alleged to have been caused by the negligence of a person in the service of the defendant entrusted with and exercising superintendence. Writ dated October 18, 1910. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Sanderson, J., who at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, the material part of which is described in the opinion, ordered a verdict…
1Opinion of the CourtBbaley, J.
The defendant admits that due notice of the time, place and cause of the accident was given, and that one Annis had been entrusted with superintendence of the work of construction within the meaning of St. 1909, c. 514, § 127, cl. 2. It appears that, while engaged about the building, the plaintiff, having been directed by the superintendent to get a set of falls and send them up to fellow workmen standing on a staging at the third story, complied with the order. A workman above let down a rope to the block of the falls, but, the plaintiff having some difficulty in tying the rope to the falls,…
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