Flynn v. Perini Corp.

The plaintiff excepts to the direction of a verdict for the defendant on the plaintiff’s opening statement which we summarize. On November 24, 1965, the plaintiff worked as a switchboard operator for the Commonwealth’s Department of Public Works on the sixth floor of the new State office building which was being erected by the defendant for the Commonwealth. While leaving the building at the end of her work day she was injured when she “slipped upon one of a number of metal strips which, with other pieces of construction debris, were strewn over . . . [the surface of a cement sidewalk near…