Conahan v. Fisher
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort, the first action being for personal injuries suffered in a fall caused by the giving way of a railing of a platform at the back of and a part of a tenement le°t by the defendant to the husband of the plaintiff; and the second action being by the husband for consequential damages. Writs dated June 30, 1916. In the Superior Court the actions were tried together before Chase, J. The material evidence is described in the opinion.
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Two actions of tort, the first action being for personal injuries suffered in a fall caused by the giving way of a railing of a platform at the back of and a part of a tenement le°t by the defendant to the husband of the plaintiff; and the second action being by the husband for consequential damages. Writs dated June 30, 1916. In the Superior Court the actions were tried together before Chase, J. The material evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence, the judge ordered verdicts for the defendant; and the plaintiffs alleged exceptions. The cases were argued at the bar…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The plaintiffs, a woman and her husband, in these two actions of tort seek to recover from their landlord, the owner of the house, damages caused to them by the fall of a railing of a platform attached to and forming part of their tenement. There was evidence tending to show that the male plaintiff, several years before the events here in issue, orally hired at a monthly rental the tenement, which consisted of the second floor of a three-story wooden apartment house; that the tenement so hired consisted of a'number of rooms within the main wall of the building, together with a balcony or…
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