Cerchione v. Hunnewell

There was evidence tending to show that the plaintiff, in the exercise of due care, on January 1, 1912, was injured by slipping on a sidewalk in Boston, on ice formed from water discharged from a spout on a building owned by the defendants which had been in the same structural condition for about eleven years. The building was of such size that by St. 1892, c. 419, § 66,* it was required to have “ leaders sufficient to carry all the water to the street, gutter or sewer, in such manner as not to flow upon the sidewalk.” The spout in question discharged water from a conductor on the roof and…