Rolfe v. Tufts
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tobt, against the owners of the building numbered 161 on Court Street in Boston, the first action for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff Flora Rolfe from falling on the floor of the kitchen, in the part of the building subleased to that plaintiff’s husband, by reason of water that flooded the floor from a defective gutter which it was alleged to have been the -duty of the defendants to keep in a proper and safe condition, and the second action by the…
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Two actions of tobt, against the owners of the building numbered 161 on Court Street in Boston, the first action for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff Flora Rolfe from falling on the floor of the kitchen, in the part of the building subleased to that plaintiff’s husband, by reason of water that flooded the floor from a defective gutter which it was alleged to have been the -duty of the defendants to keep in a proper and safe condition, and the second action by the husband of the plaintiff in the first case for consequential damages. Writs dated September 24, 1910. In the Superior…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
As the rights of both of these plaintiffs depend upon those of Flora Rolfe, she hereafter will be spoken of as the plaintiff.
The defendants were the owners of a building in Boston. They had given a lease of the entire building to one Marks, who himself occupied the street floor of the building and had given a lease of the upper part thereof to the plaintiff’s husband. Both of these leases contained provisions whereby the lessees covenanted that they would “keep all and singular the said premises in such repair, order and condition as the same are in at the commencement of said term, or may be…
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