Cobb v. Worcester County Electric Co.

The plaintiffs’ exceptions in this action of tort for personal injuries to the female plaintiff (hereinafter, the plaintiff) attack the action of the trial judge in striking testimony of the condition, on the Monday morning following the injury, of the store and office premises of the defendant in Worcester where the plaintiff fell on the preceding Saturday morning, July 26, 1952, and in instructing the jury to disregard the testimony because “there was no evidence concerning the fact that the premises were in the same condition as they were at the time of the accident.”

The plaintiff…