Legal Opinion
Ross v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 9, 1916PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The plaintiff seeks to recover under R. L. c. 171, § 2, as amended by St. 1907, c. 375 (imposing liability upon a person or corporation for causing the death of a person who is not in his or its employment or service), for the death of his intestate Ella F. Ross.*
The jury could find the following facts: Miss Ross was an employee of the defendant, and worked on the tenth floor of its building. On December 23,1913, at about one o’clock, her usual lunch hour, she put on her street clothes and entered the elevator, to go to the ninth floor for the purpose of delivering a Christmas present to…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SturtivantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
- Pigeon's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
- Sundine's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Donovan's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Boyle v. Columbian Fire Proofing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1902
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Claim of Kowalek v. New York Consolidated RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1920
- White v. E. T. Slattery Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
- Clark v. M. W. Leahy Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
- Chapman's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1947
- Griffith v. Raven Red Ash Coal Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1942
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