Whalen v. City of Boston

This is an action under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 84, § 15, based upon a fall and a consequent injury to the knee sustained by the plaintiff on June 24, 1937, by reason of a defect in a way which the defendant was by law obliged to repair. The right of the plaintiff to recover is not denied, the only question relates to her right to have included in the damages compensation for a second fall on October 12, 1937, which “was caused in part by the weakness in her knee resulting from the original injury of June 24, 1937,” and to which “no other factor contributed . . . except her walking” along “the…