Legal Opinion
Messner v. City of Springfield
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 17, 1927PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The plaintiff was injured by falling on the sidewalk near the premises numbered 34 Sanford Street, a public highway in Springfield, on December 16, 1925. The evidence showed there was a hole in the sidewalk an inch and one half deep at one end, three inches wide and nine inches long, with “a sharp edge to it”; that the plaintiff stepped into this hole which caused her “to twist her ankle and fall.” She testified: it felt as “if my [right]] heel was imprisoned in it, [the hole]], that I couldn’t get it out when I wanted to step forward”; that “her heel . . .became imbedded in the hole.” It…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Marvin v. City of New BedfordMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Naze v. Inhabitants of HudsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1924
- Hughes v. City of LawrenceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
- Cannon v. Inhabitants of BrooklineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1926
- Howe v. City of MarlboroughMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Crowell v. City of MaldenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1930
- Callagy v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Sheehan v. City of LynnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1930
- Witham v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1928
- Cameron v. City of SomervilleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
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