Connolly v. City of Waltham
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, under the St. of 1887, c. 270, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The plaintiff was a laborer employed upon the city water works of Waltham, and had been so employed for about six weeks, when the side of a trench caved in upon him while he was at work. The trench was about five feet wide and six feet deep, and open for some three hundred feet. It was in sandy ground, and the earth thrown out was piled upon the side which fell. The trench was not planked, and no material was provided for the purpose of preventing it from caving. The injury occurred on August 30, 1888, and the action was under the employers’ liability act of 1887, the declaration alleging…
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