Cosgrave v. Malstrom

The Opinion of the court was delivered by

Case, J.

The appeal is by the defendant from a judgment entered against her following jury verdict in the Essex Common Pleas. The suit is the outcome of personal injuries received by Mrs. Cosgrave while on the defendant’s premises.

Mrs. Cosgrave and Mrs. Malstrom — indeed the two famillies — had been friends and neighbors for twenty-six years. They frequently exchanged visits — intimately passing from back yard to back yard and through the back doors. Shortly before the incident sued upon Mrs. Malstrom had purchased a form of quilt designated a…