Larue v. Farren Hotel Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for a personal injury. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Lord, J., the defendant admitted that it was a corporation, and the owner of the estate at Turner’s Falls, upon which the accident was alleged to have happened.
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Tort for a personal injury. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Lord, J., the defendant admitted that it was a corporation, and the owner of the estate at Turner’s Falls, upon which the accident was alleged to have happened. The plaintiff put in evidence the lease from the defendant to W. D. Budlong of a store on said estate, with the cellar under the same, by which the lessee covenanted, among other things, that he would not, without the consent in writing of the lessors or their successors or assigns, make or suffer any alterations or additions in or to the said premises, and that he…
1Opinion of the CourtAmes, J.
Upon the evidence detailed in this bill of exceptions, it would have been improper for the court below to rule as a matter of law that the defendant was not liable. The manner in which the building was constructed, and in which that part of it occupied by Budlong was used, might be considered as an invitation to all persons having lawful occasion to visit that part of it, to make use of the paved sidewalk as a means of access, and as an assurance that with due and reasonable care they might do so with safety. Sweeny v. Old Colony Railroad, 10 Allen, 368. Carleton v. Franconia Iron Co. 99…
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