Legal Opinion
Foster's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 5, 1922PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJenney, J.
The deceased employee, J. Raymond Foster, in the course of his employment by the R. H. White Company as a stock boy, was sent on an errand from the second to the fourth floor of the employer’s store. His most convenient route was by a stairway, beside an elevator well within which a heavy iron counterweight ran up and down in grooves. A wainscot about four and one-half feet in height separated the well from the stairway, and the distance between the latter and the weight, when the weight passed by it, was three inches. At one time a metal grille about eighteen inches wide had been placed in…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Sponatski's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
- Von Ette's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Sanderson's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Savage's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
- Dube's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Lapinsky's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
- MacDonald's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
- Belanger's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
- Crown's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1926
- Hughes's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
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