Legal Opinion
Frizzell v. Metropolitan Coal Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 16, 1937PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQua, J.
This action is in tort for damage to the plaintiff’s schooner-yacht, sustained on February 20, 1934, while the yacht was hauled out in a boat yard in East Boston, and caused by the blowing off of the roof of a building on premises immediately adjacent to the boat yard.
The defendant conceded that the roof was defective and that the finding should be for the plaintiff, if the defendant’s relation to the premises when the roof was blown off was such as to make it liable for their condition.
The decisive facts bearing upon the relation of the defendant to the premises from which the roof was…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Clifford v. Atlantic Cotton MillsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
- Ainsworth v. LakinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1902
- Dalay v. SavageMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
- Garland v. StetsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- Dempsey v. ChambersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Inferrera v. Town of SudburyMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1991
- Kurtigian v. City of WorcesterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
- Underhill v. ShactmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1958
- Cassidy v. WelshMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1946
- Marsden v. Eastern Gas & Fuel AssociatesMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1979
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