Legal Opinion
Alden v. Norwood Arena, Inc.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 14, 1955PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpalding, J.
The defendant, a corporation, owns and operates an arena in Norwood where so called “stock car” races are conducted. On the evening of September 24, 1949, the plaintiffs Littlefield and Neilson and the plaintiff Alden and his wife went to the arena to see the races. They purchased tickets for the box seat section. Alden and his wife and the plaintiff Neilson sat in either the fourth or the fifth row of boxes and the plaintiff Littlefield sat forty or forty-five feet away from them.
During one of the races as “the cars came into the last turn a sort of gasp went up from the crowd” and the…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Bartley v. PhillipsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
- Rodgers v. BoyntonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
- Isaacson v. Boston, Worcester & New York Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- Harmon v. Old Colony RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
- Shaw v. Boston American League Baseball Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1950
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3Cited by26 opinions
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