Norton v. Chandler & Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, against a corporation carrying on a retail dry goods store on Tremont Street south of West Street in Boston, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on February 25, 1913, while she was passing through a revolving door maintained by the defendant at the entrance to its store, by reason of the alleged negligence of the- defendant in permitting the door to revolve with such rapidity and violence as to throw the plaintiff down and cause her injuries.
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Tort, against a corporation carrying on a retail dry goods store on Tremont Street south of West Street in Boston, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on February 25, 1913, while she was passing through a revolving door maintained by the defendant at the entrance to its store, by reason of the alleged negligence of the- defendant in permitting the door to revolve with such rapidity and violence as to throw the plaintiff down and cause her injuries. Writ dated April 4, 1913. In the Superior Court the case was tried before White, J. The essential facts shown by the evidence are…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
The plaintiff testified that, as she went through the revolving door on entering the defendant’s store, the wing behind her suddenly struck her in the back and threw her forward on to the floor of the store. There was evidence that at the time of the accident this door revolved much more easily and much more rapidly than such doors usually do. One of the witnesses *101testified “that as he passed through it [the revolving door in. question] into the store it made two revolutions at least after he passed through, though he pushed it very gently;” and farther on he testified "that after he came out…
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