O'Connor v. Neal
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by falling from a staging while in the employment of the defendants, who were builders and contractors. Trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., who ordered a verdict for the defendants, and reported the case for the determination of this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The plaintiff was a mason in the employ of the defendants, and at the time of the injury complained of was working in a building which they were erecting on Court Street, in the city of Boston. He had been ordered earlier in the day by one of the defendants to point the windows in a front room in the second story. While engaged in the afternoon upon one of the windows, a laborer also in the defendants’ employ called down to him from above that he had got to have a stage, and that he (the laborer) would shift the stage. The plaintiff said, “ All right,” and the laborer fixed the stage, which…
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