Pickett v. Waldorf System, Inc.

This is an action of tort wherein the plaintiff seeks to recover compensation for injuries sustained by her by slipping upon ice on a public ’sidewalk adjacent to a building or part of building occupied by the defendant.

The defendant was not liable to the plaintiff if the ice on which she slipped formed from natural causes. Sanborn v. McKeagney, 229 Mass. 300, and cases there cited. Hart v. Wright, 235 Mass. 243. Tiffany v. F. Vorenberg Co. 238 Mass. 183. The jury were so instructed.

There was evidence tending to show that the ice in question formed by the freezing of water used in washing the…