Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Co. v. Samuel Evans Construction Co.

In this action of tort, which was tried to a judge of the Superior Court, there was evidence of the following: A new electric transformer (weighing about eight tons), which the plaintiff had purchased, had arrived on a flat car at a railroad siding in Fitchburg. One Sawyer, an *753electrical engineer employed by the plaintiff, made arrangements through one Logan, a consulting engineer, to have the defendant unload the transformer and place it in position at a site in Lunenburg which had been prepared for it. The site was a “cleared level spot . . . surrounded by a steel fence . . . inside of…