Connors v. Richards
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries caused by being struck upon the head by a piece of ice falling from a building of the defendant on State Street in Boston.
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Tort for personal injuries caused by being struck upon the head by a piece of ice falling from a building of the defendant on State Street in Boston. Writ dated May 2, 1916. In the Superior Court the action was tried before Hall, J. The statement in the record as to the second release, mentioned in the opinion, was as follows: “The defendant called the plaintiff as a witness and showed her another release, which the plaintiff testified bore her signature, but did not remember signing. It bore the same date and wording as the first release signed by the plaintiff, and it was agreed by the…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The plaintiff was injured by ice falling from the defendant’s building. Parts of the building were rented to tenants, but the defendant admitted that the gutters and the roof were in her charge and control. The statutory notice was seasonably given, and there was evidence that the plaintiff was in the exercise of due care. She testified, in substance, that the ice struck her on the head and “bounding, struck her muff and cut a tail off it; ” that the superintendent of the building sent her with the janitor to a lawyer’s office where she signed a receipt executed in duplicate, under seal, in…
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