Langley v. Wheelock
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by a porter and shipper employed in the storeroom of the defendants for injuries caused by the fall of a steel bar through the alleged negligence of one Stimpson a superintendent of the defendants. Writ dated August 4, 1900. In the Superior Court Sherman, J. ordered a verdict for the defendants; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
This is an action of tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendants in their store in Boston. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence, the judge directed a verdict for the defendants, and the case is here on the plaintiff’s exception to that ruling.
The defendants are in the steel and iron business, and keep in their store large quantities of steel, the greater part of which is in bars of different lengths varying-in diameter from an eighth of an inch to eight inches. Around the store are racks in which the steel -is kept: The racks are about…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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