Erickson v. Buckley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions OF tort against the owner of an apartment house numbered 25 on Woodford Street in the part of Boston called Dorchester, the first by a married woman, occupying with her husband an apartment in the house, for personal injuries sustained by her on February 21, 1916, at about half past seven o’clock in the evening by falling on the outside steps of the house in the control of the defendant, which were used in common by all the tenants in the house, and the second…
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Two actions OF tort against the owner of an apartment house numbered 25 on Woodford Street in the part of Boston called Dorchester, the first by a married woman, occupying with her husband an apartment in the house, for personal injuries sustained by her on February 21, 1916, at about half past seven o’clock in the evening by falling on the outside steps of the house in the control of the defendant, which were used in common by all the tenants in the house, and the second action by the husband of the plaintiff in the first case for the loss of his wife’s services and society and expenses for…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
In the first action, in the absence of the defendant from the Commonwealth, a statutory notice of the accident was left at the business office of the defendant with his sister and managing clerk, who was authorized to receive legal notices, within the limitation of time for the service of such a notice prescribed by St. 1913, c. 324. The sister immediately sent notice of the accident to the defendant, who received it within ten days of the accident and thereupon wrote the plaintiff on March 16, 1916, “I learned a few days ago of your accident, and I wish to assure you of my sympathy in these…
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