McCarvell v. Sawyer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, against the owners of a building in Boston, for personal injuries occasioned, to the plaintiff by falling into an elevator well. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Hopkins, J., the jury returned a verdict for the defendants; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
This is an action for personal injuries. The plaintiff, wishing to visit a friend, went to the wrong building, walked along a passageway, walked through a door which she says was open, and fell down an elevator well. The defendants owned and were in control of the passage and the elevator well. The plaintiff had come from the Provinces, and never had seen an elevator well before. In view of the argument for the plaintiff, we may add that when she came to the building she asked a man who was standing at the entrance and who as it turned out was one of the tenants of the building, if her friend…
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