Nichols v. Donahoe

The judge found for the plaintiff in this action of tort to recover for personal injuries, received on • January 13, 1938, when she fell upon the sidewalk in front of the defendant’s premises by reason of slipping upon an accumulation of ice which had resulted from the, freezing of water that had been discharged from a conductor upon the defendant’s premises and flowed upon the highway. There was evidence that at the time of the accident the premises *242were occupied by one Gannon, who paid a weekly rental and undertook to “do the repairs,” and that he had become a tenant about November .1,…