Freeman v. Hunnewell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by an alleged defect in an elevator in a building owned by the defendants in Boston. Trial in the Superior Court, before Richardson, J., who, upon all the evidence, ruled that the plaintiff could not recover, and directed a verdict for the defendants; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The defendants are owners of a building five stories high, in which is a freight elevator for the use of tenants, which the defendants retain in their control and keep in repair. The rear wall of the building forms one side of the elevator well, and above the third floor it is built out into the room about fifteen inches, so that the well is smaller above the second story than in the lower stories of the building. The elevator is an open platform, built of such size as to pass up and down in the upper stories, where the well is narrowed by the construction of the wall, and when the elevator…
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