Lodi v. Maloney
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries caused while in the employ of the defendants, who were contractors constructing a heating plant at Springfield. Writ dated February 4, 1902. At the trial in the Superior Court, Maynard, J. at the close of the evidence ruled that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover, and ordered a verdict for the defendants. The plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
When the plaintiff, who had had eleven years experience as a hod carrier, was hurt the work in hand was the lowering of a boiler into a cellar. The boiler was twenty or twenty-five feet long and weighed about ten tons. It was to be allowed to slide down inclined beams, its motion being controlled by the manipulation of two wire ropes one of which was fastened around each end of the boiler, and went thence to a wooden post around which it took two or three turns, the other end of the rope being held by a gang of men who were to let the rope slip slowly around the post as the weight of the…
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