Murray v. Knight
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, on February 20, 1890, at about 6.03 p. M., by falling on a concrete walk on the defendants’ premises, leading from the door of their mill to a public street, called River Street, at Readville.
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Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, on February 20, 1890, at about 6.03 p. M., by falling on a concrete walk on the defendants’ premises, leading from the door of their mill to a public street, called River Street, at Readville. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Thompson, J., the plaintiff introduced evidence tending to show that she was in the service of the defendants in the mill up to 6 P. M., and was making her exit therefrom to River Street when she fell; that it was dark, and that no sand, gravel, ashes, or other substance covered in whole or in part the…
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The plaintiff, an employee of the defendants,was injured by falling on a concrete walk on the defendants’ premises, which led from their mill to a public street. The declaration contained three counts, two at common law, and one under the St. of 1887, c. 270, §1, cl. 2. The ground relied on under all the counts was that the walk was dark and slippery, being covered with ice, without ashes or sand upon it. There was conflicting evidence on these points; and, under the instructions of the court, the jury must have found that the defendants were not guilty of negligence in either of these…
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