Parker v. Barnard
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, against the owners and the occupants of a building in Boston, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff therein. Trial in this court, without a jury, before Field, J., who found for the defendants, and reported the case for the consideration of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The plaintiff was a police officer of the city of Boston, acting under a rule regularly passed by the police commissioners, which made it his duty to examine in the night-time *117the doors and windows of dwellings and stores, to see that they were properly secured, and to give notice to the inmates, or, if such buildings were unoccupied, to make fast the doors and windows found open. He crossed the threshold of the elevator entrance of the building, of which the defendants were owners or occupants, the doors of which were open, for the purpose of making an examination, thinking it was the…
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