Blake v. John F. Johnston Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant as stated in the opinion. Writ dated July 25, 1910. In the Superior Court the case was tried before King, J. Material facts which the evidence tended to prove are stated in the opinion. At the close of the evidence the judge ordered a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtDeCourcy, J.
The defendant had contracted to furnish the steam heating apparatus for a new mill that was being constructed, and at the time of the accident was engaged in hanging a line of steam pipe to the ceiling of the first story. The plaintiff was one of its employees and a short time before the accident had been sent to lower one of the hangers or hooks upon which the pipe rested. While doing this work he stood upon a wooden bench commonly known as a horse, which was about four feet high and five and a half feet long; and, according to his testi*144many, when getting down his shoe caught in a nail on…
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