Healy v. Gilchrist Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on October 14, 1904, while in the employ of the defendant as a saleswoman on the second floor of the defendant’s store on Washington Street in Boston. Writ dated February 14, 1905. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Bishop, J. The facts shown by the evidence are stated in the opinion.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on October 14, 1904, while in the employ of the defendant as a saleswoman on the second floor of the defendant’s store on Washington Street in Boston. Writ dated February 14, 1905. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Bishop, J. The facts shown by the evidence are stated in the opinion. The judge ruled that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant a jury in finding for the plaintiff, and ordered a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff alleged exceptions, which after the death of Bishop, J., were allowed by Pierce, J.
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
The plaintiff was a saleswoman in the employ of the defendant. The latter was laying a floor over what had before been a stairway. After the lining floor of plank had been laid over the entire space and a covering floor about seven eighths of an inch in thickness on top of this over a part of the space, the department in which the plaintiff worked was moved to the place, and the business- of selling goods was there carried on. Against the edge of the covering floor a plank nine inches wide and two and one half inches thick, and a number of feet in length, was laid flat without being nailed,…
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