Carney v. A. B. Clark Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by a boy, nineteen years of age when injured, against his employer for personal injuries sustained on the morning of October 25, 1907, by being thrown to the ground from the roof of one of the defendant’s factories in Peabody in the manner described in the opinion.
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Tort by a boy, nineteen years of age when injured, against his employer for personal injuries sustained on the morning of October 25, 1907, by being thrown to the ground from the roof of one of the defendant’s factories in Peabody in the manner described in the opinion. Writ dated December 3,1907. The sixth count ‘of the declaration, on which alone the plaintiff relied, alleged that the plaintiff was injured by reason of the negligence of some person in the service of the defendant entrusted with and exercising superintendence, whose sole or principal duty was that of superintendence, or, in…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
The plaintiff, with Cleveland and Machury, all being employees of the defendant, were laying “ paroid ” paper on the roof of one of the defendant’s buildings. The building, which was two hundred feet long, had a pitched roof, and its eaves were fifty feet above the ground. The work was begun at the ridge pole, parallel with which the paper was laid in strips three feet wide. While the men were standing upon a bracket staging a few feet below the eaves, engaged in laying the lower strip, a gust of wind tore the paper from the hands of the other two men stationed one at each end, wrapped the…
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