Ferron v. King
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, against the owner and occupant of certain real estate in Brockton at the corner of North Montello Street and a private way called King Avenue, for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff on May 23, 1907, from being thrown to the ground by reason of the caving in of a dirt walk on the land of the defendant, leading from the sidewalk of North Montello Street to a store kept by the defendant in a building on her land, to which the public were…
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Tort, against the owner and occupant of certain real estate in Brockton at the corner of North Montello Street and a private way called King Avenue, for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff on May 23, 1907, from being thrown to the ground by reason of the caving in of a dirt walk on the land of the defendant, leading from the sidewalk of North Montello Street to a store kept by the defendant in a building on her land, to which the public were invited to resort for purposes of trade. Writ dated January 11, 1908. A count was added to the declaration by amendment,…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The plaintiff had one natural leg and one wooden leg with a flat base about three inches across. As he came out of the defendant’s cigar store, where for a considerable time he had been a regular customer, upon the public way, his wooden leg went through the walk, according to some of the evidence, “ in a slanting way towards the cellar and partly under the building,” and he sustained injuries by reason of which this action is brought.
1. It cannot be said as matter of law that the deposition of Lambert was admitted erroneously. There was ground to support the inference that the condition of…
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- White Sewing Machine Co. v. Phenix Nerve Beverage Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
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