Legal Opinion
McAvey v. Albany Realty Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 21, 1952PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
The plaintiff, an employee of a tenant in the defendant’s building, was hurt on November 16, 1945, by stepping into an open freight elevator well. There was a verdict for the plaintiff.
The facts the jury could have found are these. The building, at the comer of Albany and Wareham streets, Boston, was purchased by the defendant the preceding year. The plaintiff’s employer, a shoe company with two hundred employees, was a tenant at that time. There were six other tenants, and the defendant retained control of common passageways and of a freight elevator. On the first floor a long passageway led…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Gallagher v. MurphyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
- Donnelly v. LarkinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1951
- Silver v. CushnerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
- Story v. Lyon Realty Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
- Wright v. PerryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Banaghan v. DeweyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1959
- Sullivan v. HamacherMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1959
- Jones v. WoodMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1953
- O'BRIEN v. PetersonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1952
- Michaels v. McCarthyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1960
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