Thompson v. City of Worcester
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries, from the breaking of a plank used as a staging, on which the plaintiff was standing while at work in the employ of the city of Worcester as a laborer in the construction of a certain sewer in that city, with a count alleging negligence of a superintendent of the defendant in regard to the construction of the staging and in ordering the plaintiff to work upon it, a second count alleging a failure of the defendant to furnish the plaintiff with…
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Tort for personal injuries, from the breaking of a plank used as a staging, on which the plaintiff was standing while at work in the employ of the city of Worcester as a laborer in the construction of a certain sewer in that city, with a count alleging negligence of a superintendent of the defendant in regard to the construction of the staging and in ordering the plaintiff to work upon it, a second count alleging a failure of the defendant to furnish the plaintiff with suitable appliances for his work, and a third count, added by amendment, alleging a defect in the ways, works and machinery…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
The plaintiff was one of a gang of fourteen or fifteen city employees engaged in setting up a portable overhead railway, used for carrying buckets back and forth in excavating a trench to hold a sewer pipe. The railway was made up of sections sixteen feet long. Each section consisted of two upright joists at each end of the section, braced across, and carrying a girder on the braces on the top of the uprights. The railway for the travellers carrying the buckets back and forth was suspended from and below this girder. The plaintiff and another man were screwing the track on to the girder over…
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