Dickinson v. City of Boston

This is an action of tort to recover damages for injuries suffered by the plaintiff’s intestate, caused by the fall of a defective lamp post owned by the defendant. Originally the deceased sought to sustain the action under R. L. c. 51, § 18, for injuries received as a traveller upon the highway. But if the lamp post which fell stood in a public way, at the time of the accident she was on her own premises, and this statutory provision was inapplicable. Upon her death, the plaintiff, as administratrix, being admitted to prosecute the suit, by an amendment duly allowed declared in tort at…