Readman v. Conway
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff from a defect in a platform in front of a building on land owned by the defendants in Lawrence. At the trial in the Superior Court, be fore Brigham, C. J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendants alleged exceptions, the substance of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The defendants are the owners of a building, consisting of three shops or tenements, standing forty feet back from the line of Essex Street in Lawrence, and having a wooden platform extending from it to the sidewalk of Essex Street They made oral leases of these shops, each to a separate tenant. The platform had no fences or lines of any kind separating the parts thereof in front of the several shops from each other, but was entirely open, so that persons passed over it in any direction in going to either of the shops. The verdict of the jury establishes the fact that the plaintiff, while in…
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