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COYNE v. JOHN S. TILLEY CO. INC.

368 Mass. 230 (1975)

331 N.E.2d 541

LEO COYNE vs. JOHN S. TILLEY CO., INC. (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 25, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter G. Murphy for the plaintiff.

James B. Dolan (William B. Shaughnessy with him) for John S. Tilley Co., Inc.

John W. McCann, for Lynn Ladder Co., Inc., submitted a brief.

Present: TAURO, C.J., BRAUCHER, HENNESSEY, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.

TAURO, C.J.

These are two actions of tort in which the plaintiff seeks to recover for injuries suffered in a fall from an aluminum stepladder. In his declarations,2 the plaintiff alleges that his fall "was due to the negligent and careless manner in which said ladder was manufactured, designed, and constructed." The two actions were consolidated for trial in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston. In the action brought against the manufacturer...

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