Blood v. Ansley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tobt, brought originally by George H. Blood, of Boston, and, upon his death, which occurred about two years after the trial, allowed to be prosecuted further by Ellen Blood, the administratrix of his estate, for personal injuries sustained on June 13, 1914, by falling into a well or cistern in the floor of the defendant’s foundry in Everett, to which the original plaintiff had been invited for the purpose of inspecting -a pattern for a casting.
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Tobt, brought originally by George H. Blood, of Boston, and, upon his death, which occurred about two years after the trial, allowed to be prosecuted further by Ellen Blood, the administratrix of his estate, for personal injuries sustained on June 13, 1914, by falling into a well or cistern in the floor of the defendant’s foundry in Everett, to which the original plaintiff had been invited for the purpose of inspecting -a pattern for a casting. Writ dated June 3, 1915. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Sanderson, J. The evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Cotjrcy, J.
The plaintiff’s intestate suffered personal injuries on June 13, 1914, by falling into a well or cistern in the defendant’s foundry. The building is on the southerly side of Crescent Street in Everett, is thirty feet in width by ninety feet in length, and divided into four rooms. In the northeast corner facing the street is an office, and connecting with it is a pattern room, in the northwest corner. Back of these is the moulding room, extending fifty feet in depth and the full width of the' building. Here is where most of the work is performed, the castings made and the flasks set. Back of…
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