Sleeper v. Park
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort, the first by. a married woman for personal injuries sustained on September 2, 1913, by reason of a defective staircase in a two-tenement house belonging to the defendants at 15 Indiana Avenue in Somerville, which the plaintiff was visiting at the invitation of the defendants, and the second action by the husband of the plaintiff in the first action for consequential damages sustained by reason of her injuries.
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Two actions of tort, the first by. a married woman for personal injuries sustained on September 2, 1913, by reason of a defective staircase in a two-tenement house belonging to the defendants at 15 Indiana Avenue in Somerville, which the plaintiff was visiting at the invitation of the defendants, and the second action by the husband of the plaintiff in the first action for consequential damages sustained by reason of her injuries. Writs dated November 11, 1914. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Hardy, J. The material evidence on the question of liability is described…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
The plaintiff in the first action seeks to recover for personal injuries received on September 2, 1913, while she was examining a house with a view to renting it. She hereafter will be referred to as the plaintiff. The second action is brought by her husband to recover consequential damages.
Ray R. Rideout, one of the defendants, was called by the plaintiff and testified that the defendants, as trustees, represented the stockholders of the “Somerville Home Building Association;” that at the time of the accident he was called the managing trus*294tee, and had most to do with the management; that…
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