Legal Opinion
Sordillo v. Fradkin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 1, 1933PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
The defendant excepted to the refusal of the trial judge to direct a verdict in her favor in an action of tort for bodily injuries to a three year old boy resulting from a fall on April 7, 1929, through two loose and weak pickets in a balustrade around a second floor piazza adjoining a tenement hired from the defendant by the plaintiff’s parents under a tenancy at will.
The jury could have found that the piazza was not a part of the tenement hired by the plaintiff’s parents, and was not hired by them in common with a family occupying another tenement on the same floor, but remained in the…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Tuttle v. George H. Gilbert Manufacturing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
- Andrews v. WilliamsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
- Conahan v. FisherMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
- Flanagan v. WelchMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
- Roberts v. Lynn Ice Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
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3Cited by26 opinions
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- Laskowski v. ManningMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1950
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