Ward v. New England Fibre Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff in the defendant’s mill, from the alleged negligence of its employees. Trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., who refused to rule that, upon the, evidence, the plaintiff could not recover, and, after a verdict for the plaintiff, allowed exceptions, which, so far as material to the point decided, appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The only question in this case is whether, upon the undisputed facts, the plaintiff was a servant of the defendant, and a fellow servant of the employees of the defendant, by whose negligence he was injured. He was working by the month for Manchester and Ward, who were engaged in putting a hopper into the defendant’s pulp mill. The specifications for the hopper were made by one Strahan, the defendant’s superintendent, and the materials were furnished by Manchester and Ward, and the work was done by their employees. They were to charge for the materials and the time of their men. At the time…
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