Erickson v. American Steel & Wire Co. of New Jersey
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Three ACTIONS OP tort for personal injuries suffered severally by three servants of the defendant through the bursting of a steam pipe or header connected with one of the boilers in the power plant of the defendant at Worcester.
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Three ACTIONS OP tort for personal injuries suffered severally by three servants of the defendant through the bursting of a steam pipe or header connected with one of the boilers in the power plant of the defendant at Worcester. Writs dated respectively October 21, December 16 and November 22,1904. Annie M. Johnson, the plaintiff in the second case, was the widow of Alfred Johnson, one of the injured workmen, who died six days after the accident, and the administratrix of his estate. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Pierce, J. In each case notice of the time, place…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
The fundamental question in these cases is, whether the defendant was negligent in the construction and maintenance of its steam power plant. The plaintiffs in the first and third cases and the plaintiff’s intestate in the second case were employees of the defendant working in a room adjoining the boiler room, in which a steam main burst, causing their injuries. Seventeen horizontal boilers were placed side by side in the boiler room. The steam main connecting with the boilers, including an expansion pipe on the end, was about one hundred forty-five feet long, with an inside diameter of…
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