White v. E. T. Slattery Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries, received by the plaintiff when in the act of alighting from an elevator in the store of the defendant, which occupied an entire building on Tremont Street in Boston, the declaration as amended containing only allegations in general terms that on August 30, 1912, the plaintiff, while in the exercise of due care, received serious injury on account of the negligence of the defendant, its agents and servants.
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Tort for personal injuries, received by the plaintiff when in the act of alighting from an elevator in the store of the defendant, which occupied an entire building on Tremont Street in Boston, the declaration as amended containing only allegations in general terms that on August 30, 1912, the plaintiff, while in the exercise of due care, received serious injury on account of the negligence of the defendant, its agents and servants. Writ dated October 16, 1916. The defendant filed a document, entitled “Motion and Plea,” which is described in the opinion, and also, without waiving that “Motion…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is an action of tort wherein the plaintiff seeks to recover compensation for injuries sustained by her in 1912. The plaintiff filed a declaration briefly but adequately setting forth her cause of action. Thereupon the defendant filed a paper which it entitled, “Defendant’s Motion and Plea.” The substance of this pleading was that at the time of the injuries alleged in the plaintiff’s declaration she was in the employ of the defendant and that the defendant was a subscriber under the workmen’s compensation act, St. 1911, c. 751, and that the plaintiff had at no time given notice in…
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