Muldoon v. Fuller

The jury could have found that the plaintiff’s injuries resulted from slipping and falling when, on March 28,1956, about 10 a.m., she stepped on a coal hole cover maintained by the defendant as owner of the adjacent building, in the public sidewalk of Bennett Street, Boston, the cover then being covered with snow and, as it had been for up to two years, “worn . . . slippery and shiny.” A path had been shovelled in the sidewalk with the snow piled at the curb. There was only a light covering of snow on the part of the cover nearer the building on which the plaintiff fell, but it was thick on…