Legal Opinion
Peirce v. Hunnewell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 14, 1934PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
The defendants owned a five-story business building in Boston, and let parts of it to different tenants. The plaintiff, a printer, had come by way of a stairway to have some paper ruled by the tenant of the third floor. When the paper was ready, it was lying on the main part of the third floor, packed in three heavy bundles. The plaintiff took a bundle in each hand, and in the dim natural light went to the elevator, which was of the freight or factory type, and in which apparently the electric light was not lighted at the time. There is no evidence that there was any operator of the elevator.…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Plummer v. DillMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- Kirshenbaum v. General Outdoor Advertising Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1932
- Bergeron v. ForestMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
- Gordon v. CummingsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890
- Milbury v. Turner Centre SystemMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Kuzmiak v. BrookchesterNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1955
- Banaghan v. DeweyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1959
- Sneckner v. FeingoldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
- Wynn v. SullivanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Garland v. StetsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
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