Parker v. Portland Publishing Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions and motion. Action on the case for negligence. Plea, general issue. Yerdict for plaintiff for |4,000. The facts, and so much of the bill of exceptions as are necessary to the understanding of the points decided, appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
This is an action on the case for negligence.
The defendants had their counting room on Exchange street, on the lower floor. The editorial and composing rooms were on the second floor. At the head of the stairs is a hall, on the right hand is the door leading to defendants’ rooms, and on the left is an elevator-way with folding doors.
*174The plaintiff, as he alleges, on the 17th of September, 1875, between eleven and twelve o’clock at night, was proceeding to the defendants’ rooms on the second floor, the counting room being closed, for the purpose of procuring the insertion of a notice in the…
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