Williams v. Norton Bros.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1906, Butland County, Miles, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. This is an action to recover damages for an injury received by plaintiff who was employed by defendants as a quarry-man, in consequence of an accident to a derrick called “an incline,” in defendants’ slate quarry in Pawlet, Vermont.
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Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1906, Butland County, Miles, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. This is an action to recover damages for an injury received by plaintiff who was employed by defendants as a quarry-man, in consequence of an accident to a derrick called “an incline,” in defendants’ slate quarry in Pawlet, Vermont. Plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that he was injured by being struck by a falling wire cable that had broken at some point many feet above his head; that the break was…
1Opinion of the CourtTyler, J.
This action was brought to recover damages for injuries received by the plaintiff while at work in the defendants’ slate quarry.
1. In the course of the trial a witness, Staples, testified that a cable or wire rope, which fell and injured the plaintiff, was' unsound in certain respects. He was then asked by the plaintiff’s counsel whether or not the condition that he had described was observable, one that might be observed by looking at it. The question called for the knowledge of the witness derived from his observation, whether it was a patent condition or a latent defect. The answer that it…
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