Legal Opinion
Kelley v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 25, 1937PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
The plaintiff obtained a verdict in an action under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 84, § 15, for bodily injury *464sustained on Monday, June 1, 1931, by catching her heel in a hole while crossing a public way in Boston-called Washington Street, near the corner of Summer Street, which hole was a little more than four inches in width and in depth. The case comes here on exceptions taken'by the defendant.
The only evidence that the hole existed a substantial time before the accident came from the plaintiff’s son, who testified that on the Tuesday preceding the injury he saw the hole after he had left the men’s…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Thibeault v. PooleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1933
- Kelley v. Jordan Marsh Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- Commonwealth v. KosiorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- Stowe v. MasonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- Tornroos v. R. H. White Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Commonwealth v. LacyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- City of Boston v. NielsenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
- Wilson v. JeffreyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1951
- DiAngelo v. United Markets Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1946
- Boutillette v. RobbinsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1958
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