Legal Opinion
Carroll v. Hemenway
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 29, 1943PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQua, J.
The plaintiff, a police officer of Boston, seeing lights in a building of the defendants at about two o’clock in the morning of Sunday, April 17, 1938, entered the building through an open rear door for the purpose of investigating and fell into the unguarded and unlighted well of a freight elevator located a short distance from the door, and was injured.
There was evidence that the mechanism of the elevator *46gate was defective in such a way that the gate would not stay up when the elevator was at the first floor; that someone had tied it up, with the result that it did not come down in place…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Comeau v. ComeauMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
- Parker v. BarnardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
- Aldworth v. F. W. Woolworth Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Richmond v. Warren Institution for SavingsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
- Wynn v. SullivanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Mounsey v. EllardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
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- Carter v. Yardley & Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1946
- Francis L. Dobb, Etc. v. George P. BakerCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1974
- Sandler v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
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