Legal Opinion
Saunders v. City of Medford
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 29, 1939PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.
The plaintiff, while walking at about six o’clock in the afternoon of October 13, 1934, along a brick sidewalk of a much travelled street located in the business district of the defendant city, caught her heel in a hole in the sidewalk and was thrown down. The hole was caused by the absence of one half of a brick. There was evidence that this hole was about one and one half inches deep; that the broken end of the brick had a "muddy look”; that "the material at the bottom of the hole consisted of rotten leaves and sweepings, rather firm in substance”; and that the general appearance of the…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Weiner v. D. A. Schulte, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
- Beauvais v. Springfield Institution for SavingsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Fuller v. AndrewMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1918
- Keough v. E. M. Loew's, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Connelly v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Kelly v. City of SpringfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1951
- Bagdikian v. City of WorcesterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1945
- Trites v. City of MelroseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1945
- Christman v. SHAGOURY CONSTRUCTION CO. INC.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
- Ajamian v. Town of WatertownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
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