Bannon v. Peerless Weighing & Vending Machine Corp.

This is an action of tort for personal injuries sustained as a result of alleged negligent installation and maintenance of a weighing machine in a store vestibule in Somerville. The judge at the conclusion of the evidence granted the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict subject to the plaintiff’s exception.

Although the record is somewhat meager, there was evidence from which the jury could have found the following: On May 9, 1942, the plaintiff and one O’Connor were in the vestibule for the purpose of weighing themselves on a commercial weighing machine, which was apparently of…