Childs v. American Express Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Essex dated October 4, 1904. There was a trial before White, J., who, at the close of the evidence introduced on behalf of the plaintiff, directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant, and the plaintiff excepted. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
The accident, for which this action is brought, occurred in a basement shipping room, where the plaintiff was employed by one Rogers. From this room a staircase six feet wide of twenty-two stairs, the tread of each stair being eighteen inches in width, leads up to a driveway. A tackle and fall were kept on the premises for use in raising articles from the basement by way of the stairs. The day before the accident a large, heavily filled drummer’s trunk was-brought to the shipping room, and remained there until the next day, when one Melzard, an employee of the defendant, came for it. The…
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