Fraser v. Blanchard
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1908, Washington County, Taylor, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
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Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1908, Washington County, Taylor, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case. After the opinion in this case was filed, a motion for reargument was made by the defendant, and publication was deferred pending reargument, which was had at the January Term, 1910. The master has no duty to instruct the servant where the work and the manner of doing it can be comprehended by a man of ordinary intelligence, and the servant is such a man. Reynolds v. B. <&…
1Opinion of the CourtRowell, C. J.
This is case for negligence in not properly securing the foot of the mast of a derrick that the plaintiff was helping raise on the dump of defendant’s quarry, by reason whereof the mast slipped and fell and injured him.
No copy of the declaration is furnished, but according to the defendants’brief it consists of two counts; one, that the plain*139tiff was ignorant of the work of raising a derrick, which the defendants well knew, and yet did not instruct him in it; the other, that the defendants did not furnish him a safe place in which to do the work, in that they did not properly secure the foot…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Reynolds v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Spies v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Butler v. FrazeeSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- James Smith Woolen Machine Co. v. HoldenSupreme Court of Vermont · 1901
- Whittaker v. BentMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
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