Legal Opinion
Cairns v. Giumentaro
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 5, 1959PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCounihan, J.
This is an action of tort by a tenant. The defendants are husband and wife and the landlords of the plaintiff, who occupied a tenement on the third floor of a three family dwelling house numbered 13 Gilman Street, Worcester.
The plaintiff seeks to recover damages for injuries sustained on March 19, 1956, as the result of a fall on an outside platform at the rear entrance to a stairway leading to the tenement of the plaintiff, by reason of the presence of snow and ice on the platform.
The action was referred to an auditor, findings of facts not final. Among other matters he found that, when the…
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