Levins v. Theopold

The plaintiff, an employee of the Western Union Company, was hurt on May 18, 1943, while stepping into an elevator at 222 Summer Street, Boston, a building owned and controlled by the South Terminal Trust of which the defendants’ testate was trustee. The plaintiff was on the premises on business of her employer with a tenant of part of the seventh floor under a written lease dated April 11, 1940. The plaintiff’s exceptions are to the admission in evidence of the lease and to the direction of a verdict for the defendants.

The plaintiff, a business visitor of a tenant, was owed the same duty by…