McIntire v. White
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while in the defendants’ employ as a salesgirl, from falling on a flight of stairs situated on the defendants’ premises. Trial in the Superior Court, before Maynard, J., who directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendants; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
This is an action of tort for personal injuries. The plaintiff was in the employ of the defendants and had been sent up stairs to a room in a new part of their shop, to which the public as yet had not had access. On her return she took a different way from that by which she went, and started down a winding staircase, which also was not open to the public at the time. The stairs were new and had been treated with oil or shellac. To protect them while drying a loose piece of pasteboard had been placed upon each step, not covering it quite equally, the step not being of equal width throughout.…
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