Legal Opinion
Mascary v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 3, 1927PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
There was evidence tending to show, in its aspect most favorable to the plaintiff, that, while descending a flight of stairs leading to the Central Square station of the defendant, she slipped and fell, and immediately thereafter a piece of banana peel was found underneath her shoe; that her husband, going forthwith to the place where she fell, found there a part of a banana skin, “dark or black as tar, and dry, a little dry skin, very black,” and “it was smoothed down; . . . soft . . . as if something had been pressed on it.” The defendant owned and controlled the stairway and it was open to…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Anjou v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Goddard v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1901
- O'Neill v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1924
- O'Leary v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1926
- Towne v. Waltham Watch Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1924
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3Cited by25 opinions
- White v. MugarMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- Foley v. F. W. Woolworth Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Hudson v. F. W. Woodworth Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
- Scaccia v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
- Blake v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1929
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