McMahon v. McHale
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two ACTIONS OF TORT, the first being for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, and the second for causing the death of the plaintiff’s husband, Joseph Reif, through the fall of a derrick, while in the employ of the defendants. At the trial of the cases together in the Superior Court, before Fessenden, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in each case; and the defendants alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
These actions grew out of the fall of a derrick near which the plaintiff McMahon, and Reif the husband of the other plaintiff, were at work. The derrick was of the single stiff-leg kind, and had been in place about four weeks, during which it had been in constant use ten hours a day. Although it often carried several tons, it fell with a load of about three hundred pounds. The stiff-leg alone remained in place, the fall of the boom and mast injuring McMahon and causing the death of Reif. McMahon had been at work less than two hours and Reif about two weeks.
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