Sullivan v. Marin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by being caught in an elevator owned and operated by the defendant. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bond, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
There was evidence that the plaintiff had given a signal for the elevator to come to the floor where she was waiting, and that the defendant, operating the elevator himself, opened the door and asked her to step in, and that she thereupon attempted to do so. Also that the floor of the car was then six or seven inches above the floor on which the plaintiff stood, and was only two inches thick, and that the car was of such dimensions that when its floor was at the same level with the floor of the hall there was a considerable open space between the threshold of the door giving access to the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Spade v. Lynn & Boston RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
- Carr v. West End Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
3Cited by3 opinions
- Webber v. Old Colony Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
- Camp Mfg. Co. v. BeckCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1922
- Maguire v. SheehanCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1902