Leonard v. Storer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort to recover for injuries sustained by the female plaintiff on account of snow and ice sliding from a building owned by the defendant upon her.
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Tort to recover for injuries sustained by the female plaintiff on account of snow and ice sliding from a building owned by the defendant upon her. In the Superior Court the following facts were agreed: “ That in the winter of 1869, the defendant was the owner cf a building on the southerly side of Winter Street, in the city of Boston, and contiguous to said street; that the said building was covered by a slated, pitched roof, (the pitch of which is thirty-two degrees,) upon which snow and ice collected and slid into said street, in the winter season, to the same extent to which it collected…
1Opinion of the CourtAmes, J.
It does not appear that the defendant had any con-
nection with the injury complained of, except that he was the owner of the building in front of which it occurred. The whole of this building had been leased for a long term of years to a tenant who was in actual occupation at the time of the accident. By the terms of the lease, the tenant had bound himself to make certain specific alterations in the lower story of the building, and also to make at his own expense “ all needful and proper repairs, both internal and external, of the demised premises.” The lessee was the occupant of the entire…
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