Damon v. City of Boston

Tout for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by- reason of the alleged want of a railing at the side of a highway in the defendant city. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court, on appeal, on an agreed statement of facts, in substance as follows: The plaintiff, on February 18, 1885, at about 11.30 o’clock in the forenoon, was walking on the sidewalk on the northerly side of Mount Yernon Street, along a lot of land belonging to the Church of the Advent, toward Brimmer Street. The part of this lot which lay at the intersection…