Noonan v. O'Hearn
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by the administrator of the estate of Henry R. Noonan for causing the death on June 24, 1911, of the plaintiff’s intestate, twenty-two months old, who was alleged to have fallen from the roof of the defendant’s tenement house numbered 35 on Chelsea Street in the part of Boston called Charlestown by reason of the alleged unsafe and dangerous condition of the premises, the intestate being a son of the plaintiff, who occupied as a tenant of the defendant the tenement on…
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Tort by the administrator of the estate of Henry R. Noonan for causing the death on June 24, 1911, of the plaintiff’s intestate, twenty-two months old, who was alleged to have fallen from the roof of the defendant’s tenement house numbered 35 on Chelsea Street in the part of Boston called Charlestown by reason of the alleged unsafe and dangerous condition of the premises, the intestate being a son of the plaintiff, who occupied as a tenant of the defendant the tenement on the fourth or top floor of the house. Writ dated November 11, 1911. In the Superior Court the case was tried before…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The plaintiff’s intestate, Henry R. Noonan, a child twenty-two months old, was fatally injured on Saturday, June 24, 1911, by falling from the roof of a four-story tenement house that was owned by and in the control of the defendant. Covering this roof to within twenty inches of the edge was a platform constructed of boards laid upon three or four inch joists; and this flooring was surrounded by a three board fence, attached to upright posts, the boards being each about five inches wide and placed ten or twelve inches apart. The tenants had access to this structure, commonly called a shed, by…
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