Oxford v. Leathe
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by the falling of a platform on premises owned by the defendant in Woburn. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bishop, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff ; and the defendant alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
This is an action against the owner of a building, for personal injuries caused by the giving way of a platform upon which the plaintiff was standing. Some days before the accident the defendant had made a written agreement that he had “ leased the Woburn Rink' and seats now therein for four nights, August 2d, 3d, 4th, & 5th, 1893, building to be lighted,” to one Gleason, all money in the box office to be under the defendant’s control until twenty dollars was paid each night. Gleason’s understood purpose was to give exhibitions of horse training. On the evening of August 9, Gleason was…
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