Ryder v. Robinson

The principal plaintiff, hereinafter called the plaintiff, a child almost seven years of age, was seriously injured on October 13, 1948, when a section of iron fence fell upon her in a passageway leading to the rear door of her home in Lowell. There is also a count by her father for consequential damages. After verdicts for the plaintiffs under leave reserved, the judge entered verdicts for the defendant. The plaintiffs except.

The plaintiff’s father was a tenant of the Lowell Housing Authority. The passageway, fifteen feet in width, ran between the house occupied by him and a church lot and…