Sheridan v. Gorham Manufacturing Company

This is an action of trespass on the case for negligence, and is now in this court on the plaintiff’s exceptions to the action of the Superior Court in sustaining a demurrer to the declaration.

The declaration states that the plaintiff was a servant of the defendant, and that in the course of the plaintiff’s employment as an electrician it became necessary to use a ladder- for the purpose of reaching a ceiling of one of the rooms in the defendant’s factory; that the ladder which the defendant provided and gave to the plaintiff was unsafe and defective, in that certain iron points, or spurs,…