Wahlberg v. Bowen
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on February 5, 1914, when the plaintiff was in the employ of Dickson and Turnbull, a firm of masons engaged in setting stone at the Widener Memorial Library of Harvard College at Cambridge, by reason of the alleged negligence of a driver of the defendants, who were the members of a firm of master teamsters that delivered stone to be set up by the plaintiff’s employers.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on February 5, 1914, when the plaintiff was in the employ of Dickson and Turnbull, a firm of masons engaged in setting stone at the Widener Memorial Library of Harvard College at Cambridge, by reason of the alleged negligence of a driver of the defendants, who were the members of a firm of master teamsters that delivered stone to be set up by the plaintiff’s employers. Writ dated October 29, 1914. The defendants’ amended answer alleged “that, if it shall appear that the plaintiff ever received any injuries while in the exercise of due care…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is an action to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while in the employ of Dickson and Turnbull, a firm that was engaged in setting stone at the Widener Memorial Library in Cambridge. The defendants were teamsters whose teams delivered the stone to be set, and the plaintiff was injured while assisting the defendants’ driver, at his request, in backing the driver’s team.
The plaintiff contended that his injuries were caused by the negligence of the driver; while it was the contention of the defendants that the driver was not negligent, that the accident was due to the…
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