Legal Opinion
McGuire v. Valley Arena Inc.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 2, 1938PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
This is an action of tort to recover compensation for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff as a result of falling on a slippery floor on the defendant’s premises. There was a verdict for the plaintiff. The case comes before us on the defendant’s exception to the denial of its motion for a directed verdict.
The denial of this motion was error.
There was evidence that the plaintiff, while attending with his wife and friends a wrestling exhibition on the defendant’s premises — known as the Valley Arena — to which he had paid admission, slipped and fell on a very slippery wooden floor,…
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