Sheehan v. Holland
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tout for personal injuries sustained on December 28, 1914, by reason of a fall alleged to have been caused by slipping on a defective and dangerous step leading to a door of the defendant’s house in Concord which the plaintiff was invited by the defendant to enter, when the plaintiff had come at the defendant’s request to do some dressmaking for the defendant.
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Tout for personal injuries sustained on December 28, 1914, by reason of a fall alleged to have been caused by slipping on a defective and dangerous step leading to a door of the defendant’s house in Concord which the plaintiff was invited by the defendant to enter, when the plaintiff had come at the defendant’s request to do some dressmaking for the defendant. Writ dated October 15,1915. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Hitchcock, J. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, consisting merely of her. own testimony, which is described in the opinion, the judge, on motion of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The plaintiff slipped as she was going on a December day at the invitation of the defendant up the steps to a door "of the defendant’s house. The only testimony bearing upon the cause of the injury was that of the plaintiff to the effect that as she fell “I felt this slipperiness of something. My foot slipped sideways on something.” There is no evidence in the record to show that the steps were defective in any respect. There is nothing whatever to warrant an inference that the defendant was negligent. Norton v. Hudner, 213 Mass. 257. Zugbie v. J. R. Whipple Co. 230 Mass. 19.…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Norton v. HudnerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
- Zugbie v. J. R. Whipple Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1918
- Jameson v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
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