Legal Opinion
Blanchette v. Union Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 8, 1924PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
This is an action of tort to recover for the plaintiff’s personal injuries received as the natural result of *409sliding down a diving chute situated upon a raft in an arm of the sea adjacent to Fort Phoenix Park in Fairhaven.
The declaration is in three counts, the second of which is now waived. In substance the first count alleges that the defendants maintained for hire a bathing house and beach at Fort Phoenix; that in connection with the beach and bathing.house, it let rooms for hire for its profit; that in connection therewith it maintained a floating raft with a chute or slide thereon to be…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Barrett v. Lake Ontario Beach Improvement Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1903
- Jeddrey v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Thompson v. Lowell, Lawrence, & Haverhill Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898
- Turlington v. Tampa Electric Co.Supreme Court of Florida · 1911
- Larkin v. Saltair Beach Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1905
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Perkins v. ByrnesSupreme Court of Missouri · 1954
- Robert J. Cleary, by His Father and Next Friend, Mike Cleary, Sr. v. Indiana Beach, Inc., a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1960
- Waddel's Administrator v. BrashearCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1934
- Kergald v. Armstrong Transfer Express Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1953
- Shanney v. Boston Madison Square Garden Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
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