Twombly v. Consolidated Electric Light Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Motion by defendant. Case for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff Jany. 1, 1902, while in the defendant’s employ at, work upon an extension ladder at a house on Congress Street, in the City of Portland.
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Motion by defendant. Case for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff Jany. 1, 1902, while in the defendant’s employ at, work upon an extension ladder at a house on Congress Street, in the City of Portland. From the testimony it appeared that the defendant corporation was engaged on the first day of January, 1902, and had been for a long time previous thereto, in generating and transmitting electricity for lighting houses and other buildings in Portland, and for various other purposes, and had lines of poles, or posts, erected upon and along the public streets and highways of Portland…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, J.
Case by servant against master to recover damages for personal injuries.
The plaintiff was employed upon a ladder about twenty-five feet ffom the ground, and in reaching for a rope with one hand, nearly his whole weight was suspended from a round in the ladder which he held with the other hand. The round broke, and he fell to the ground sustaining injuries. No complaint is made that the plaintiff himself was not in the exercise of due care. But after a verdict for the plaintiff, the defendant now contends, upon a motion for a new trial, that the case shows no want of due care on its own part.
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