Legal Opinion
Caissie v. City of Cambridge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 5, 1944PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.
The first action is brought by a minor to recover damages for personal injuries sustained at eight-fifteen o’clock on the evening of July 9, 1941, while travel-ling along a public way in the defendant city, when some children who were using a beam upon a wooden horse for a seesaw lost control of the beam, permitting its end to fall *347across the sidewalk and to strike and break the plaintiff’s leg. The city was engaged in laying a sewer in the way, and at the end of the day’s work had piled up the boards and beams which were used in the work at a place where, if they had been left undisturbed,…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. English Construction Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Hand v. Inhabitants of BrooklineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
- Royal Paper Box Co. v. Munro & Church Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1933
- Glassey v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
- Lincoln v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
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3Cited by49 opinions
- Rogers v. Attorney GeneralMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1964
- Metropolitan Coal Company, Inc. v. Franklin Johnson, New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company v. Franklin JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1959
- Union Old Lowell National Bank v. PaineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1945
- Richardson v. Lee Realty Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Massachusetts Ass'n of Tobacco Distributors v. State Tax CommissionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1968
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