Hunt v. Attleboro Ice Co.

Exceptions overruled. This is an action of tort for negligence by Janie C. Hunt (the plaintiff) and her husband. The plaintiff fell on the sidewalk of South Main Street, a public way in Attleboro, where an oil hose had been laid across the sidewalk by the defendant Carlson for the delivery of oil from the truck of his employer, the defendant Attleboro Ice Company, to a nearby customer. The plaintiff testified by deposition that she was walking on the sidewalk when “she suddenly fell and she did not know why or how she had fallen.” After the fall she. saw the hose. A man who was walking six or…