O'BRIEN v. Shea

The personal injuries for which the plaintiff seeks to recover compensation were received while she was making a social call on the defendant at the latter’s t home on Hollis Street in Cambridge. The plaintiff, who was seventy-one years old, and the defendant, whose age does not appear, had been acquainted thirty or forty years, and the former had been in the habit of visiting the latter "perhaps once a month or so.” On the evening in question, June 9, 1948, the plaintiff arrived at about 7:30 p.m. and with the defendant sat in the kitchen talking for about half an hour. They were then…