Richard T. Green Co. v. Young

Citations

• 179 F. 493
• 103 C.C.A. 73
• 1910 U.S. App. LEXIS 4671

Syllabus

<p>:Master and Servant (§ 116*) — Master’s Liability for Injury to Employé —Defective “Ways, Works, or Machinery.”</p> <p>Under the Massachusetts employer’s liability act (Rev. Daws, c. 106, §( 71), as construed by the state courts, a staging built by a shipbuilding company under the direction of its superintendent around a vessel under construction for the carpenters and caulkers to work upon and required for that purpose is a permanent structure which constitutes “ways, works, or machinery,” within the meaning of the statute, and a defect in its construction by a failure to spike one of the cross-pawls to the uprights may authorize a recovery against the company for an injury to an employé resulting therefrom.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Master and Servant, Cent. Dig. § 207; Dec. Dig. § 116.*</p> <p>For other definitions, see Words and Phrases, vol. 8, pp. 7420, 7421.]</p>