Draper v. Cotting
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Five actions of tort against the owners, as trustees, of an office building numbered 101 on Tremont Street in Boston called the Paddock Building, the first four actions being for personal injuries sustained by the respective plaintiffs on July 9, 1915, while in a passenger elevator in the building, and the fifth'being by the husband of the plaintiff in the first case for expenses incurred on account of the injuries sustained by his wife.
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Five actions of tort against the owners, as trustees, of an office building numbered 101 on Tremont Street in Boston called the Paddock Building, the first four actions being for personal injuries sustained by the respective plaintiffs on July 9, 1915, while in a passenger elevator in the building, and the fifth'being by the husband of the plaintiff in the first case for expenses incurred on account of the injuries sustained by his wife. Writs dated June 8, 1916, August 13 and December 18, 1915, and August 30, 1916. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Chase, J. The…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The first four plaintiffs, to whom reference hereafter will be made as the plaintiffs, sue for personal injuries suffered while riding in a passenger elevator owned and operated by the defendants,' while the fifth action is brought by the husband of Mrs. Draper for expenses incurred because of the harm to his wife.
The following material facts are not in controversy: The rooms in the defendants’ building, consisting of elevén stories, were let to tenants for use as offices and shops, to which access could be had by passenger elevators, over which as well as over the connecting stairways the…
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