Kenney v. Shaw

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided November 10, 1882

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1882-11-10

Tort, for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ. Answer, a general denial.

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Decided 1882-11-10

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Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1910

8 state decisions

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By the Court.

¶1There was no evidence to show any liability of the defendant for the injury which the plaintiff sustained. The injury was caused by one of the risks of the employment which the plaintiff assumed. Exceptions overruled.

¶2 *503Memorandum.

¶3On the tenth day of November 1882, the Honorable Waldo Colburn, one of the Justices of the Superior Court, was appointed a justice of this court, in place of Mr. Justice Endicott resigned, and took his seat upon the bench on the fourteenth day of the same month, at the term of the court then held at Boston in the county of Suffolk.