Cannon v. Crowley

The plaintiff, an employee of one Dwyer, transported a gasoline power shovel, owned by the defendant and weighing about twenty tons, from Camp Edwards to Quincy on a trailer owned by Dwyer, and was injured, while the shovel was being unloaded, through the alleged negligence of an employee of the defendant. The judge, subject to the plaintiff’s exception, ordered a verdict for the defendant.

*374Adopting as we must the view of the evidence most favorable to the plaintiff, we state the material facts which a jury could find. The defendant, a general contractor, who also operated a sand and gravel…