Peloquin v. Robert Northridge Furniture Co.

This is an action of tort to recover for personal injuries caused by the alleged negligence of the defendant’s employees. We have had occasion to consider the case twice before, 338 Mass. 107, and 341 Mass. 543. In the more recent decision we sustained the exception of the plaintiff to the direction of a verdict for the defendant.

The plaintiff lived in an apartment on the third floor of a building at 8% Chrome Street in Worcester. He was moving to another apartment and had purchased new furniture from the defendant in a ‘transaction whereby some of the plaintiff’s old furniture was taken by…