Leonard v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries from an alleged defect in Dorchester Avenue, a highway of the defendant. Writ dated September 22, 1899. At the trial in the Superior Court before Bishop, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $2,000. The defendant alleged exceptions, raising the questions stated by the court.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The accident in this case occurred on September 9, 1899, between eight and nine o’clock in the evening. The plaintiff, a girl about sixteen years old, was walking with her sister along Dorchester Avenue in Boston, when she came to a place in front of a blacksmith shop, where there was a board, with a lantern on the end, across a part of the sidewalk, running from the shop to a tree. Some thirty feet off was another board running from a building to a telegraph pole. The distance from the outside of the tree to the curbstone was about five feet and two inches, and the distance from the…
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