O'Donoughue v. Moors
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on December 20, 1908, in the manner described below. Writ dated March 20, 1909. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Sherman, J. The following facts were shown by the evidence. The plaintiff lived with her sister, who was a tenant in the apartment house known as Lenox Hall, No. 1 Richmond Court, in the town of Brookline, which was the property of the defendant.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on December 20, 1908, in the manner described below. Writ dated March 20, 1909. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Sherman, J. The following facts were shown by the evidence. The plaintiff lived with her sister, who was a tenant in the apartment house known as Lenox Hall, No. 1 Richmond Court, in the town of Brookline, which was the property of the defendant. The plaintiff’s sister occupied an apartment under a lease from the defendant dated September 1, 1907, which was in force at the time of the accident and was introduced…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
There was neither averment nor proof that the plaintiff had given notice to the defendant of the time, place and cause of her injury. St. 1908, c. 305. This is fatal to the maintenance of her action. Baird v. Baptist Society, ante, 29. But as we doubt whether this point was brought to thé attention of the judge at the trial, or was intended to be covered by the defendant’s .request that a verdict be ordered in his favor, we prefer not to decide the case upon that ground.
There was no evidence of the breach of any duty owed by the defendant to the plaintiff. The defect upon the walk on which…
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