Morris v. Pike
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort, the first for the conscious suffering and the second for causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, George Morris, who, while at work as a carpenter for the defendants on December 11, 1909, in the construction of a freight shed on Mystic Wharf in that part of Boston known as Charlestown, was struck by a falling rafter and suffered injuries from which he died.
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Two actions of tort, the first for the conscious suffering and the second for causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, George Morris, who, while at work as a carpenter for the defendants on December 11, 1909, in the construction of a freight shed on Mystic Wharf in that part of Boston known as Charlestown, was struck by a falling rafter and suffered injuries from which he died. Writs dated March 18, 1910. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Lawton, J. The material facts in evidence are stated in the opinion. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence the judge…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
These two actions of tort are brought for the death and for conscious suffering before death of one George Morris. At the time of the accident in question the defendants were building a freight shed to cover a pier in East Boston. This shed was some eight or nine hundred feet long, about one hundred feet wide, and eighteen or nineteen feet high. The construction of this shed was in substance as follows: Down the centre of the pier were two rows of uprights making an aisle in the middle of the pier which was apparently some thirty feet wide. This distance is of no consequence. Then stringers…
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