Gero v. Metropolitan Park Commissioners
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort against the metropolitan park commissioners for personal injuries sustained on September 1, at about half past eight o’clock in the evening, on the boulevard of the Revere Beach Reservation by reason of a defect consisting of a large hole into which the plaintiff stepped, causing her to trip and fall. Writ dated October 22, 1917. The defendants demurred to the declaration as amended.
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Tort against the metropolitan park commissioners for personal injuries sustained on September 1, at about half past eight o’clock in the evening, on the boulevard of the Revere Beach Reservation by reason of a defect consisting of a large hole into which the plaintiff stepped, causing her to trip and fall. Writ dated October 22, 1917. The defendants demurred to the declaration as amended. The material allegations of the amended declaration and the grounds assigned for the demurrer are stated in the opinion. The case was argued on the demurrer before Jenney, J., who made an order overruling…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The plaintiff alleges that while travelling on the sidewalk of the boulevard of the Revere Beach Reservation, constructed and maintained by the metropolitan park commission in the city of Revere, she was injured “by reason of a defect consisting of a large hole, into which she stepped;” that “the land . . . on said boulevard was taken by the defendants, as such commission, for public purposes, which land consists of a part of said boulevard and contains the site or location where the plaintiff was hurt as aforesaid; that this taking was by virtue of an instrument recorded with Suffolk Deeds,…
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