Peloquin v. Robert Northridge Furniture Co.

The plaintiff seeks to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant’s employees in moving furniture from the plaintiff’s apartment. Exceptions to the exclusion of certain evidence and to the direction of a verdict for the defendant are before us. The evidence is stated in its aspect most favorable to the plaintiff.

On July 29, 1954, the defendant’s experienced movers, Bell and Fleming, went to the plaintiff’s third floor apartment about one mile and one half to three miles from the defendant’s store to pick up furniture which the plaintiff had…