Gill v. Carrier

This is the plaintiff’s exception to the direction of a verdict for the defendant. Taking the evidence most favorably for the plaintiff the jury could have found facts stated in this and following paragraphs. The plaintiff shortly after 9:00 p.m. on April 30,1953, was crossing the grounds of the State House in Boston to go to her home on Temple Street. “As she was going around by the State House she met three students coming up from Suffolk Law School, indicating to her that the steps leading up from Derne Street [which she knew had been blocked off at prior times] were open to the public.”…