Mackey v. Lonergan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries suffered by reason of falling down a flight of stairs in a building in Cambridge owned by the defendant and occupied by one John T. Keane as a tenant at will. Writ dated February 11, 1913. The declaration as amended was in three counts.
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Tort for personal injuries suffered by reason of falling down a flight of stairs in a building in Cambridge owned by the defendant and occupied by one John T. Keane as a tenant at will. Writ dated February 11, 1913. The declaration as amended was in three counts. The first count alleged that the cause of the plaintiff’s fall was the negligent maintenance by the defendant of an unfit, unsafe and dangerous passageway into the premises in question and of an unprotected, unguarded and unsafe flight of stairs in the passageway. The second and third counts alleged that the maintenance of the…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The plaintiff was injured upon the premises of the defendant which were used by the defendant’s tenant as a pool room and bowling alley. In the employ of the tenant was a young boy who made his home with the plaintiff. On Saturday, December 7, 1912, at about twelve o’clock, the plaintiff walked from her home to the bowling alley, to tell the boy to come to his dinner. The door leading to the pool room was at the head of a stairway, and as she opened the door, being unfamiliar with the place, she stepped on the top of the stairway and fell to the bottom, receiving injuries on account of which…
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