Moran v. City of Chelsea

This is an action of tort to recover for injuries received by the plaintiff’s intestate, one Woods, while employed *429by the defendant as a laborer in digging a trench for a sewer. In digging, Woods and another man uncovered a stone eighteen or twenty inches thick, and two or three feet long and pear or egg-shaped and weighing between three and four hundred pounds. “It was smooth and slimy.” There was some talk between Woods and the foreman as to how it should be removed, and Woods suggested breaking it with a sledge, but the foreman said that he had none, and told some men to get a rope, which…