AFIENKO v. HARVARD CLUB OF BOSTON


365 Mass. 320 (1974)

312 N.E.2d 196

MICHAEL R. AFIENKO vs. HARVARD CLUB OF BOSTON; CONSOLIDATED SERVICE CORPORATION & another, third-party defendants.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 20, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Hurley (Thomas E. Cargill, Jr., with him) for the plaintiff.

Philander S. Ratzkoff & Thomas R. Morse, Jr. (Leo V. Boyle with them) for Harvard Club of Boston.

Daniel A. Lynch for Industrial Window Cleaning Corporation.

William J. McCluskey, for Consolidated Service Corporation, submitted a brief.

Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, QUIRICO, HENNESSEY, & WILKINS, JJ.


QUIRICO, J.

On April 20, 1966, Michael Afienko (the plaintiff) was employed as a window washer by the Industrial Window Cleaning Corporation (Industrial) and in such capacity was washing windows on the Commonwealth Avenue premises of the Harvard Club of Boston (the club). Devices sometimes called "anchor bolts" were secured in the masonry on each side of the exterior of the windows in the club's building. They were similar to large metal hooks and were intended to...

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