Miles v. Janvrin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff by reason of her falling upon defective doorsteps of a dwelling house occupied by her and her husband under an oral agreement between her husband and the defendant’s intestate, it being alleged that the steps were negligently permitted by the defendant’s intestate to be out of repair.
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Tort for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff by reason of her falling upon defective doorsteps of a dwelling house occupied by her and her husband under an oral agreement between her husband and the defendant’s intestate, it being alleged that the steps were negligently permitted by the defendant’s intestate to be out of repair. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk dated December 19, 1904. At the trial, which was before Bell, J., there was evidence introduced by the plaintiff tending to show that the defendant’s intestate agreed with the plaintiff’s husband to repair…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
It; was held by this court in Tuttle v. Gilbert Manuf. Co. 145 Mass. 169, that a landlord was not liable for personal injuries suffered by a tenant by reason of the omission *433on the part of the landlord to repair the floor of a barn which he had agreed to repair as part of the contract of a lease of the barn. And the general doctrine was laid down there that a negligent omission to repair the premises of another is not the ground of an action of tort. The same conclusion was reached in Cavalier v. Pope, [1905] 2 K. B. 757; S. C. on appeal, [1906] A. C. 428; Brodtman v. Finerty, 116 La. 1103.…
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