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• Title: City Worcester v. L. Rocheford & Son
• Author : Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
• Release Date : January 24, 1938
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 67 KB

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LUMMUS, Justice. The defendant was the general contractor engaged in building a schoolhouse for the city of Worcester, and received large sums under the contract as the work progressed. William R. McLoughlin, Inc. installed the electrical wiring under a separate contract. The schoolhouse was nearly completed when it was practically destroyed by fire on the night of April 21, 1931. Insurers of the city against loss by fire paid the loss, amounting to $384,200.57, and as assignees of the rights of the city brought in the name of the city this action of contract against the general contractor, alleging that the fire was caused by negligence of the general contractor or its servants. The Judge, sitting without a jury, found for the defendant. The case is here on the plaintiff's exceptions. There is little doubt that the fire was of electrical origin, and was occasioned by the introduction into the building of a portable cable about fifty yards long for the purpose of conducting electrical current to a saw and a planer, each motor-driven, which the defendant was temporarily operating in the auditorium. The cable was connected with the feeder wires at the front of the building just above the temporary front door. The portable cable was carried into the building by the defendant, while the feeder wires were installed by the electrical contractor. The Judge was unable to find who made the connection.

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