Gillette v. General Electric Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained while in the employ of the defendant as a laborer helping to install a large electric generator in the power house of the Old Colony Street Railway Company in Fall River, through the alleged negligence of a superintendent of the defendant.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained while in the employ of the defendant as a laborer helping to install a large electric generator in the power house of the Old Colony Street Railway Company in Fall River, through the alleged negligence of a superintendent of the defendant. Writ dated September 16, 1902. At the trial in the Superior Court DeCourcy, J. at the close of the evidence ruled that there was no evidence which would warrant a verdict for the plaintiff, and ordered a verdict for the defendant. At the request of the parties, the judge reported the case for determination by this court,…
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The work in hand was the installation by the defendant of an electrical generator in the power house of a railway company. The undertaking was in its fiature temporary. The building with its entrances and floors did not belong to the defendant and was to be used by it only while it was installing the machinery in the power house. Before the plaintiff who was a common workman began his employment there a pit had been constructed in and below the floor to receive the generator and the fly wheel of the engine which was to drive it. In one part of the pit the lower half of the field piece of the…
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