Kunan v. DeMatteo

The plaintiff seeks to recover damages for an injury sustained, about seven o’clock on the evening of June 9, 1936, when, in attempting to cross Caledonian Avenue, in West Roxbury, from the premises of his employer, he stepped upon the metal cover of a water meter well and one half of the wooden rectangular frame which held the iron covering to the box collapsed, falling into the well and precipitating the plaintiff’s leg into the well. The defendant at the time of the accident was engaged in setting up granite curbing and in resurfacing the sidewalk with bituminous concrete. The surface of…