Tetrault v. Ghibellini

This is an action of tort for personal injuries sustained by falling into a grease pit in the defendant’s automobile service station. The jury found for the plaintiff, and the defendant’s exception to the denial of his motion for a directed verdict raises the questions whether there was evidence of the defendant’s negligence and whether as matter of law the plaintiff was not in the exercise of due care.

The evidence tended to show the following: On June 28, 1940, after 9 p.m. the plaintiff entered the front door of the office of the defendant’s service station, where automobile accessories…