Callahan v. Dickson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by a girl, about nine years of age when injured, for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained on August 4,1907, by reason of the plaintiff’s foot being caught in a hole in a plank or board walk leading from the tenement hired from the defendant by the plaintiff’s father, when the plaintiff was in the company of her father and was in the exercise of due care. Writ dated September 23, 1907. The answer was a general denial.
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Tort by a girl, about nine years of age when injured, for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained on August 4,1907, by reason of the plaintiff’s foot being caught in a hole in a plank or board walk leading from the tenement hired from the defendant by the plaintiff’s father, when the plaintiff was in the company of her father and was in the exercise of due care. Writ dated September 23, 1907. The answer was a general denial. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Schofield, J. The following facts, among others, appeared at the trial. The defendant was the owner of four…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
The jury could find that the defendant leased the tenement on Union Place to the plaintiff’s father, with the *515right to use that passageway as the sole approach to and from the tenement, that the passageway remained in the sole control and charge of the defendant, and that she assumed the duty of keeping it and the board walk which ran through it in as good condition for the use of the father and his family as at the time of the letting. Faxon v. Butler, 206 Mass. 500. Miles v. Janvrin, 200 Mass. 514. Domenicis v. Fleisher, 195 Mass. 281. Andrews v. Williamson, 193 Mass. 92. Leydecker v.…
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