Rapson v. Leighton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by a plasterer against bis employer for injuries received on December 26, 1899, from the fall of a staging on which the plaintiff was standing while at work, causing the plaintiff to fall through a hole in the floor upon a pile of brick and'rubbish in the cellar of the building in which the work was being done. Writ dated February 17, 1900.
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
[After the foregoing statement of the case.] We are of opinion that this exception must be sustained.
An employer can leave to his employees the erection of stagings which are used temporarily in the course of work. If he elects to do so and furnishes them with proper materials, and is not negligent in the selection of his employees, he is not liable. Thompson v. Worcester, 184 Mass. 354. But in the case at bar Beady, who could be found to be a superintendent, interfered and directed the employees to use the ledger board, without inspecting it to see if it was safe. This could be found to have…
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- Thompson v. City of WorcesterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
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