Brown v. Jarvis Engineering Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by the alleged negligence of the defendant’s foreman. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendant alleged exceptions, the nature of which appears in the opinion. The case was argued at the bar in November, 1895, and after-wards was submitted on the briefs to all the judges.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The defendant had a contract with the Advertiser Company to construct a brick and mortar foundation for a printing press in the basement of the Advertiser Building. It sent three or four of its workmen there to do the work, in charge of and under the direction of one Healey. While the men were at work, the plaintiff, a driver of a van containing rolls of paper, backed up his van to the rear entrance of the building to deliver the paper to the Advertiser Company. It was necessary that the defendant’s work should be suspended while the paper was being unloaded and rolled into the basement. One…
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