Pette's Admr. v. Old English Slate Quarry
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by-jury at the September Term, 1914, Rutland County, Slack, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The' defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
Luigi Pette, a laborer in the defendant’s quarry, was killed by a stone that fell and crushed him. He was at work on a bench in the pit and the stone was being hoisted out of the quarry by a half-inch chain hitched around it. When it was about to pass over the butt of the quarry in its passage along the cable to its destination, the cable sagged so much that the stone struck against the bank; at that instant the chain broke, and the stone in falling struck an iron pin set in the ledge, glanced off to the south and fell upon the intestate. There was evidence fairly and reasonably tending to…
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