Brady v. Norcross
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, while in the defendant’s employ, by the fall of a part of a staging on which he was sitting while at work as a painter. The declaration contained three counts under the employers’ liability act, St. 1887, c. 270, one of which was subsequently waived; and one at common law, alleging failure to provide the plaintiff with safe instrumentalities for his work.
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Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, while in the defendant’s employ, by the fall of a part of a staging on which he was sitting while at work as a painter. The declaration contained three counts under the employers’ liability act, St. 1887, c. 270, one of which was subsequently waived; and one at common law, alleging failure to provide the plaintiff with safe instrumentalities for his work. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bond, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff under the fourth count; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the…
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The plaintiff, a painter in a building under construction, fell eighteen or twenty feet to the floor of a large room, from a plank which was part of a staging built in that room to be used there by masons and painters in finishing the interior of that room, and to be taken apart and removed when that work should be finished. The staging was made of ordinary construction timber, and consisted of uprights, held in place by ledger boards or braces, to which uprights were nailed tiers of brackets, upon which were laid, as the work might require, loose planks to support the workmen. Each bracket…
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