Roberts v. Reuben A. Grossman, Inc.

Exceptions overruled. The original plaintiff (the plaintiff) brought this action of tort for negligence against the defendant Grossman, the owner of a building located between Parking Way and Hancock Court, Quincy, and against the defendant W. T. Grant Company, the lessee, on a business percentage rental, of the store on the first floor of the building. The Commonwealth’s employment security office was the tenant on the second and third floors at a fixed rental. The front entrance to the Grant store was on Parking Way. The building was so constructed on the terrain that the roof of the Grant…