Drennan v. Grady
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while on the defendant’s premises. Trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The defendant was the proprietor of a liquor store.
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Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while on the defendant’s premises. Trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The defendant was the proprietor of a liquor store. The plaintiff having visited the store first bought a glass of beer of a bar-tender named Moran, and then went to the water-closet, or urinal, in the rear of the saloon, which water-closet or urinal was adapted and intended for the use of customers. While the plaintiff was in the rear of the place the bar-tender, Moran, opened a trap door near…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
• There was evidence for the jury that the plaintiff was more than a mere licensee. There was evidence that the water-closet and urinal were provided for the use of the customers of the defendant, and that the plaintiff was a customer. On the evidence, the questions of the due care of the plaintiff and of the negligence of the defendant were rightly left to the jury. Hendricken v. Meadows, 154 Mass. 599.
Exceptions overruled.
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- Hendricken v. MeadowsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
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