Fiorntino v. Mason
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, against the owner, as trustee, of the house numbered 466 on Main Street in the part of Boston called Charlestown, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on June 6, 1913, when the plaintiff was descending an outside flight of steps, which with the platform to which they led were a part of the portion of the defendant’s house that was occupied as tenants at will by the plaintiff and her husband with their children.
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Tort, against the owner, as trustee, of the house numbered 466 on Main Street in the part of Boston called Charlestown, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on June 6, 1913, when the plaintiff was descending an outside flight of steps, which with the platform to which they led were a part of the portion of the defendant’s house that was occupied as tenants at will by the plaintiff and her husband with their children. Writ dated July 17, 1914. In the Superior Court the case was tried before J. F. Brown, J. The evidence in regard to the cause of the accident and the condition of the…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The plaintiff occupied as tenant at will the second floor of a house of the defendant. A part of the premises let to her was a platform with outside uncovered steps. There was evidence tending to show that the plaintiff while carefully descending the steps was injured by reason of their defective condition.
The kinds of relations between landlord and tenant which have arisen in our decisions out of oral contracts establishing a tenancy at will may be divided into three general classes:
First. The ordinary oral contract for tenancy at will without further agreement. The respective rights and…
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