Bechtold v. Rae
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by the administratrix of the estate of Jacob Bechtold, late of Greenfield, against the defendants, conducting as partners a hotel in Boston called the Crawford House and maintaining therein an elevator used for conveying guests to various parts of the hotel, for negligently causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate on September 12,1916; with a count, afterwards added by amendment, claiming damages for conscious suffering of the intestate; Writ dated January 19,…
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Tort by the administratrix of the estate of Jacob Bechtold, late of Greenfield, against the defendants, conducting as partners a hotel in Boston called the Crawford House and maintaining therein an elevator used for conveying guests to various parts of the hotel, for negligently causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate on September 12,1916; with a count, afterwards added by amendment, claiming damages for conscious suffering of the intestate; Writ dated January 19, 1917. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Hamilton, J. The facts which could have been found upon the evidence…
1Opinion of the CourtCbosby, J.
This is an action brought against the defendants, who conducted the Crawford House, a hotel in Boston, for the conscious suffering and death of the plaintiff’s intestate, while he was a guest and was being carried in an elevator from the office floor to the floor on which he had been assigned a room.
His death was caused by being caught between the floor of the elevator and the upper casing of a door leading into the elevator well. The front of the elevator, where the door opening into the office was located, was sixty inches wide and fifty-two inches deep; directly opposite the door above…
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