Callahan v. Trustees of Phillips Academy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for injuries sustained by Michael Callahan, the plaintiff’s intestate, while in the employ of one Edgecomb J. Rowe by a fall caused by the giving way of a staging alleged to have been built of unsafe and unsuitable materials negligently furnished by the defendant.
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Tort for injuries sustained by Michael Callahan, the plaintiff’s intestate, while in the employ of one Edgecomb J. Rowe by a fall caused by the giving way of a staging alleged to have been built of unsafe and unsuitable materials negligently furnished by the defendant. Writ dated May 31, 1900. In the Superior Court, before Sheldon, J., at the close of the evidence on both sides, the judge at the request of the defendant directed a verdict for the defendant, and, at the request of the plaintiff, reported the case for the consideration of this court. If the ruling was correct judgment was to be…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
In this case, the plaintiff was thrown to the ground from a staging on which he was standing while painting the ceiling of the defendant’s library at Andover. The cause of the accident was the giving way of a ledger-board which supported the planks of the staging on 'which he was standing at the time.
The plaintiff was in the employ of one Rowe, a painter in Andover, who had been previously employed from time to time by the defendant corporation to paint its buildings. One Grant, who was the superintendent of the defendant’s buildings at Andover, asked Rowe to do the interior decoration of the…
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- Kalleck v. DeeringMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
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