Ballou v. Collamore
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, a boy fifteen years old, by falling into an elevator well in an apartment hotel called the Hoffman House, in Boston, owned by the defendant. Trial in the Superior Court, before Maynard, J., who, at the defendant’s request, directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The plaintiff was familiar with the elevator and with the back stairs and back halls of the hotel. During the four or five months that he had been working for one Hastings *247he had delivered goods to various tenants in the hotel from three to five times a day. On the day of the accident he went to the hotel with goods to be delivered to certain tenants. There was an elevator in two parts, the upper part being a passenger elevator, with an opening into it from the front halls only, and the lower part being a freight box, with no door, but with openings into it from both halls. He got into the…
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