Lowe v. National Shawmut Bank

This is an action of tort in which the plaintiff seeks to recover for injuries sustained when, as a result of the alleged negligence of the defendants, she slipped and fell on a common passageway owned and controlled by the defendants.

^.t the close of trial before a District Court judge, the defendants filed certain requests for rulings of law. Among these requests was the following: “A finding is not warranted that the defendants failed to use reasonable care to keep the common passageways in their control in the same condition they were or appeared to be at the time of the creation of the…