Lynch v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tout for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by a defect in Bennington Street, a public highway in Boston. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated October 18, 1901. On appeal to the Superior Court the case was tried before Pierce, J., who at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence ordered, a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This is an action to recover for an injury received by falling over an alleged defect within the limits of a public street. The evidence tends to show that the street was well constructed, with a broad paved sidewalk in good condition, opposite to the place where the accident occurred. There had been an order for widening the street to make a boulevard, and houses had been moved back a considerable distance, and the city had done a part of the work of grading and putting the *149land in condition in the widened portion between the houses and the sidewalk. But the surface was left rough, with a…
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- Felch v. Inhabitants of West BrookfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
- Hickey v. City of WalthamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Stanford v. Inhabitants of Hyde ParkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
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