Legal Opinion
Hamlet v. Inhabitants of Watertown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 8, 1924PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDeCourcy, J.
The plaintiff, a woman about fifty-two years of age, was walking from the Chase mills toward Watertown Square, along the right hand sidewalk of Pleasant Street, when her foot struck against a stone embedded in the sidewalk and she was thrown to the ground. Pleasant Street is a much travelled public way; and the place where the accident occurred is about two or three minutes walk » from the Town Hall. From Watertown Square the sidewalk was of brick adjacent to the Lewando building; but the remaining half mile, to the Bemis Mills, was an unfinished dirt walk, without a curbstone. “ It was hard…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Campbell v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Lamb v. City of WorcesterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
- O'Brien v. City of WoburnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
- Junkins v. Inhabitants of StonehamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
- Moran v. Inhabitants of PalmerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Sears v. Town of GreenfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
- Guidi v. Town of Great BarringtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1930
- Callagy v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Cannon v. Inhabitants of BrooklineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1926
- Murphy v. City of SomervilleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1925
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