Barry v. Stop & Shop, Inc.

Exceptions overruled. The plaintiff, an employee of the Cambridge water department, was, at the request of the defendant, investigating a flooding of the cellar of its store. Access to the cellar was by means of a trap door located upon the first floor. It was of metal and consisted of two leaves, each of which was about forty-four inches in length and nineteen inches in width and swung toward the other when closed. When opened each of the leaves swung up-. ward and was held open by a piece of wood one quarter of an inch thick and thirty to thirty-six inches long, each end of which rested on…