Taylor v. Loring
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received on May 29, 1905, from stepping into an open ventilator in the floor of the vestibule of the premises numbered 128 on Bedford Street in Boston in a building owned by the defendants. Writ dated June 14, 1905. In the Superior Court the ease was tried before Harris, J. There was evidence of the facts which are stated in the opinion.
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Tort for personal injuries received on May 29, 1905, from stepping into an open ventilator in the floor of the vestibule of the premises numbered 128 on Bedford Street in Boston in a building owned by the defendants. Writ dated June 14, 1905. In the Superior Court the ease was tried before Harris, J. There was evidence of the facts which are stated in the opinion. On page 284 is a reduced copy of a plan of the vestibule which was used at the trial and also at the argument before this court. At the close of the evidence, the judge ordered a verdict for the defendants; and the plaintiff alleged…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The defendants are the owners of a building on Bedford Street in Boston, including the numbers from *284114 to 128 on the street. At number 128 is a tenement occupied by the Buildings Care Company, consisting of an office on the first floor and a basement. The floor of this office is about on a level with the sidewalk, and the entrance is through a vestibule, wholly within the line of the building, extending about nine feet on the line of the street, and being about four feet deep. From the middle of it a door of ordinary width opens into the office, and at the left hand side of the door, as…
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