BROWN v. A.W. PERRY CO.


325 Mass. 479 (1950)

91 N.E.2d 229

DORIS MAE BROWN, administratrix, vs. A.W. PERRY COMPANY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 8, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.M. Pinkham, for the plaintiff.

R.N. Daley, for the defendant.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, RONAN, SPALDING, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


LUMMUS, J.

The defendant controlled a building on Bedford Street in Boston and the elevators therein. Stores and offices were occupied by various tenants. The elevators had no attendants to operate them. There was evidence that the gates on the elevators, and particularly those on the elevator on the Kingston Street side of the building, were defective, and would not close automatically, with the result that they did not guard against falling down the elevator well...

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