Plummer v. Dill
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by striking her head upon a projecting sign placed against a post at the outside corner of the landing of the defendant’s building. Trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., who directed a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKhowlton, J.
If we assume that it was the duty of the defendant to keep the entrance, stairway, and halls of his building reasonably safe for persons using them on an invitation express or implied, and if we further assume that he negligently permitted them to be unsafe, and that his negligence caused the injury to the plaintiff, and that she was in the exercise of due care, — some of which propositions are at least questionable, — we come to the inquiry whether the plaintiff was a mere licensee in the building, or was there by the defendant’s implied invitation.
She did not go there to transact with any…
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