Shute v. Bills
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tokt by the daughter of the tenant of one half of a double house numbered 2 on Cliff Street in that part of Boston called Roxbury, against the owners of the house, for personal injuries from falling and slipping down the front door steps when covered with ice.
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Tokt by the daughter of the tenant of one half of a double house numbered 2 on Cliff Street in that part of Boston called Roxbury, against the owners of the house, for personal injuries from falling and slipping down the front door steps when covered with ice. Writ dated November 14, 1902. At the trial in the Superior Court before Wait, J. the plaintiff testified that she had lived with her mother in the house in question since April of 1901; that December 8, 1901, a Sunday, was a beautiful warm day, a thawing day; that she had not been out during the day, but that about 6.45 P. M. she with…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
The plaintiff with her husband and mother occupied a one family dwelling house owned by the defendants and situated in Roxbury, the house being hired by her mother under an oral arrangement with the defendants’ agent. Early in the evening of Sunday, December 8, 1901, while she was leaving the house by the front door, she slipped upon the top step, fell and was injured. It had snowed shortly before, and the jury might have found that her fall was due to water having dripped during the day from a leak in a gutter overhead and frozen after sunset, leaving a thin skimming of ice upon the step.…
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