Legal Opinion
Davis v. John L. Whiting & Son Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 24, 1909PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
These are two actions tried together in the Superior Court, brought to recover for an injury received by the plaintiff from the fall of a shutter from a building occupied and kept in repair by the defendant in the first action, the shutters of which were being painted by the defendant in the second action. The plaintiff contended that he was walking through Belcher Lane, a public highway in the city of Boston, in the exercise of due care, and that the defendant Grant and his servants negligently suffered the shutter to fall upon him from the fifth story of the building, while they were…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Water Co. v. WareSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
- Woodman v. Metropolitan RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- Engel v. . Eureka ClubNew York Court of Appeals · 1893
- Ainsworth v. LakinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1902
- Boomer v. WilburMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
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3Cited by41 opinions
- Bourne v. WhitmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Berdos v. Tremont & Suffolk MillsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- McDonough v. VozzelaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1924
- McKenna v. AndreassiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- Vale v. BonnettCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1951
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