Mahoney v. Dore
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, while in the defendant’s employ, by falling on a flight of stairs leading from the kitchen into the back yard of a boarding-house in Boston, kept by the defendant. Trial in the Superior Court, before Bond, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows.
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Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, while in the defendant’s employ, by falling on a flight of stairs leading from the kitchen into the back yard of a boarding-house in Boston, kept by the defendant. Trial in the Superior Court, before Bond, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The plaintiff entered the defendant’s employ on June 6, 1889, as a domestic servant, and worked continuously until March 2, 1890, when she received the injuries complained of. The flight of stairs upon which the plaintiff fell consisted of twelve or thirteen steps, and led…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The plaintiff fell and was hurt on a flight of stairs, consisting of twelve or thirteen steps leading from the kitchen of the defendant’s boarding-house out of doors to the back yard. The stairway was covered and enclosed except on the side towards the yard, and there was a skylight over a portion of it, in which two or three panes of glass had for a long time been broken, so that rain, snow, and sleet came through and fell upon the stairs below. The evidence tended to show that at the time of the accident the weather was cold, and it was snowing, and that the stairs were slippery from snow…
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