Sampson v. Holbrook
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained while the plaintiff was in the defendants’ employ as a carpenter. Writ dated June 20, 1902. At the trial in the Superior Court before Mason, C. J. it appeared that at the date of the accident, which occurred on April 4, 1902, the defendants were engaged in rebuilding Lincoln Wharf in Boston; that one Logan was the general superintendent in charge; and that there were employed upon the work over fifty or sixty men; that the plaintiff wits…
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Tort for personal injuries sustained while the plaintiff was in the defendants’ employ as a carpenter. Writ dated June 20, 1902. At the trial in the Superior Court before Mason, C. J. it appeared that at the date of the accident, which occurred on April 4, 1902, the defendants were engaged in rebuilding Lincoln Wharf in Boston; that one Logan was the general superintendent in charge; and that there were employed upon the work over fifty or sixty men; that the plaintiff wits hired by Logan and went into the employ of the defendants as a carpenter on or about March 1, 1902 ; that on the night…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The evidence would have warranted a finding that Landry was a person whose sole or principal duty at the *422time of the accident was that of superintendence. But there was nothing to warrant, we think, a finding that the accident was due to any negligence on his part, or that of the general superintendent, or of the defendants.
On the night before the accident Landry had been directed by Logan, the general superintendent, to take in, in the morning, a load of lumber that was out in the yard. The lumber consisted of seven sticks of hard pine, twenty-five to thirty feet long and twelve inches…
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- Campbell v. DearbornMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
- Allard v. HildrethMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
- De Lisle v. WardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
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