Blease v. Webber
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by a woman sixty-one years of age for personal injuries sustained on November 26, 1915, when the plaintiff as a customer of the defendants and by their invitation was at the defendants’ dry goods store in the building numbered 100 on Kingston Street in Boston, by reason of falling on an inclined runway maintained by the defendants as a passageway in their store, which was alleged to have been in a dangerous and unsafe condition on account of its smooth and slippery…
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Tort by a woman sixty-one years of age for personal injuries sustained on November 26, 1915, when the plaintiff as a customer of the defendants and by their invitation was at the defendants’ dry goods store in the building numbered 100 on Kingston Street in Boston, by reason of falling on an inclined runway maintained by the defendants as a passageway in their store, which was alleged to have been in a dangerous and unsafe condition on account of its smooth and slippery surface. Writ dated October 19, 1916. The defendants’ answer, besides a general denial, alleged thg,t the plaintiff by her…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is an action for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while in the store of the defendants. She testified that she was acquainted with one Homans, a salesman in the defendants’ employ, and that he had invited her to the store; that after making some purchases on the street floor she went with Homans to the basement, which she described as “rather dark, darker than upstairs,” (although she also testified that she had no difficulty in seeing her way round); that after reaching the basement she walked up a wooden incline or runway to another room where she purchased some blankets,…
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