Szathmary v. Adams
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by the fall of a window blind upon her. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Hammond, J., who found that at the time of the accident the blind was in the exclusive use and control of a tenant of the defendant, and found for the defendant. The plaintiff alleged exceptions, the nature of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
It is a familiar rule of law, that, in the absence of an express agreement to the contrary, the owner of a tenement let to a tenant is not bound to make repairs upon it during the term, and that the tenant alone is liable to third persons for damages caused by suffering the premises to become dangerous for want of proper repairs. Kirby v. Boylston Market Association, 14 Gray, 249. Milford v. Holbrook, 9 Allen, 17, 21. Clifford v. Atlantic Cotton Mills, 146 Mass. 47.
The plaintiff was injured by the fall of a window blind from a part of 'the defendant’s building which had been let to a tenant.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Clifford v. Atlantic Cotton MillsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
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