Lambert v. Missisquoi Pulp Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case. The defendants were partners doing business under the firm name of the Missisquoi Pulp Company. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury, Franklin County, March Term, 1898, Rowell J., presiding. Yerdict and judgment for the plain tiff. The defendants excepted.
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Case. The defendants were partners doing business under the firm name of the Missisquoi Pulp Company. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury, Franklin County, March Term, 1898, Rowell J., presiding. Yerdict and judgment for the plain tiff. The defendants excepted. The action was brought to recover of the defendants for an injury sustained by the plaintiff while in their employ by reason of their alleged negligence in not providing for him a safe staging on which fco work, in connection with others, in the construction of a certain mill. That part of the charge of the court set out in the bill…
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.
The plaintiff, a carpenter of long experience, was employed by the defendants to work in the construction of their mill, and was placed under the superintendency of one Whitney as foreman. He was injured by the breaking down of one section of a long staging, built before he came upon the job by the force of workmen which he joined. This structure was insuffiieent in that the cross-pieces upon which the planks rested were fastened to the standards with nails of insufficient size, left with their heads a quarter of an inch or more from the wood. A few hours before receiving his injury, the…
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