McKinstry v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad

Exceptions overruled. There was no error in directing a verdict for the defendant in this tort action for personal injuries. The female plaintiff fell on a clinker on a flight of steps leading to the yard office of the defendant in Worcester to which she had gone to report her husband’s continued illness and collect his pay. We assume that the injured plaintiff was an invitee. But a “business invitee has no complaint if the condition of premises is incidental to the business there conducted and to be ordinarily expected by an invitee.” Vance v. Wayside Inn, Inc. 335 Mass. 617, 619. LeBlanc v.…