MacLachlan v. Brotherhood Oil Corp.

This is an action for damages resulting from a slip and fall on ice which formed from water running out of a hose placed by the defendant Brotherhood Oil Corp. (Brotherhood) near a service exit door on premises owned by the codefendant Fitzmaurice Motor Sales, Inc. (Fitzmaurice).1 Brotherhood claimed the plaintiffs failed to give notice as required by G. L. c. 84, § 18. During the course of the trial, the plaintiffs and Fitzmaurice settled, and stipulations of dismissal were filed. The jury returned verdicts, based on special interrogatories, for the individual plaintiffs against Brotherhood.…