Gordon v. Cummings

This is an action of tort for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by falling into an unguarded elevator well on Albany Street in Boston. In order that the plaintiff might maintain his action, in which he relied solely on the common law counts of his declaration, it was necessary for him to offer evidence which would justify the jury in finding that he entered, or attempted to enter, upon the defendants’ premises by some invitation or authority from them -, that he was injured in so doing by some want of care, for which they were responsible, in the construction or the management of…