Wood v. Tileston & Hollingsworth Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, by an employee in the defendant’s paper mill, for injuries from the fall of a step ladder on which the plaintiff was standing while at work, owing to the splitting of a cleat, nailed to the floor to prevent the ladder from slipping and alleged to have been nailed insufficiently. Writ dated October 22, 1900. In the Superior Court Mason, C. J. ordered a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The plaintiff worked in the defendant’s paper mill, and had occasion very frequently to use a ladder about eight feet long, leading to a platform about eight feet above the floor.- The sides of this ladder, as appears by the model, were made of narrow boards to which steps were fastened, the lower end being cut off at a slant corresponding to the slant at which the ladder would stand, such that when the ladder was put up in a position for use, the cut ends of the boards at the bottom would rest horizontally on the floor, and would have little tendency to slip. Then at the foot of the ladder,…
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