169 Mass. 284 | Mass. | 1897
This is an action for personal injuries caused by the falling of an arch when the plaintiff removed the props of the wooden support or centre on which the arch had been built. The plaintiff acted by the direction of the defendant’s superintendent, and the main question raised by the bill of exceptions is whether there was any evidence that the superintendent was
Exception was taken to the allowing of an expert to be asked whether the arch would have fallen, if the conditions above referred to, the arch of the door, the brick behind the arch in question, dryness of the mortar, etc., had been present, and as to the tendency of their absence.' We perceive no objection to the evidence. It concerned matters on which technical experience was instructive. Exceptions overruled.