Baum v. Ahlborn
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries, resulting in the loss of a part of the thumb of the plaintiff’s left hand, sustained on March 9, 1911, in a freight elevator in the building numbered 2 on Box Place in Lynn, owned by the defendant.
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Tort for personal injuries, resulting in the loss of a part of the thumb of the plaintiff’s left hand, sustained on March 9, 1911, in a freight elevator in the building numbered 2 on Box Place in Lynn, owned by the defendant. Writ dated May 15, 1908. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Harris, J. The plaintiff put in evidence the answers of the defendant to interrogatories filed by the plaintiff, and called as witnesses one Gardiner, the tenant of the whole building, who is referred to in the opinion, and one Green, the engineer of the building, employed by the defendant. At the…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The defendant is the owner of a building, in which is a freight elevator for the use of tenants, and in the *337transportation of materials it was operated by the tenants who rode up and down upon it with the freight. On the day of the accident the plaintiff, accompanied by one of his employers, entered the car and, while he was adjusting a lifting bar which he carried, a slight movement of the elevator followed. To avoid a fall, he involuntarily reached out his left hand and, in some way not clearly described, his thumb passed in between the lifting pin and the plate under the cross beam, and,…
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