Ingram v. Tasco Hotel Corp.

The plaintiff Teresa Ingram sues for personal injuries and her husband Charles Ingram sues for consequential damages, occasioned on February 9, 1949, when a swinging front door of the defendant’s Hotel Warren in Worcester was violently opened out upon the sidewalk in front of the hotel on Front Street by departing guests and struck Teresa. After verdicts for both plaintiffs, the judge under leave reserved entered verdicts for the defendant, and the plaintiffs excepted.

The declaration alleged that the front door on the day of the accident “swings over the public sidewalk.” Obviously a public…