Consolidated Hand-Method Lasting Machine Co. v. Bradley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, to recover the amount of a judgment paid by the plaintiff in an action brought against it, together with counsel fees and costs incurred in defending. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Dewey, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendants alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
Rose Tierney and John Tierney, the next of kin of John M. Tierney, an employee of the plaintiff in the suit at bar, brought suit against the plaintiff under St. 1887, c. 270, § 2, in which they alleged in the first count that John M. Tierney was instantly killed from injuries received by reason of a defect in the ways, works, and machinery of the plaintiff, which had not been discovered or remedied, owing to the negligence of a person in the employ of the plaintiff and intrusted with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, and machinery were in proper condition. In the second count, they…
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- Richmond v. AmesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
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