O'BRIEN v. PETERSON


329 Mass. 427 (1952)

108 N.E.2d 538

MARY T. O'BRIEN vs. JOHN R. PETERSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

November 6, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. Lobdell, for the defendant.

Francis J. Monahan, for the plaintiff.

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


RONAN, J.

The plaintiff, a guest at the defendant's summer hotel, was injured when she fell into a hole while walking along shore line property adjacent to the hotel at about nine o'clock on the evening of June 30, 1945. The plaintiff had a verdict, and the case is here upon the defendant's exception to the denial of a motion to direct a verdict for him.

The hotel faced the ocean and was located about three hundred feet away and upon a bluff about thirty feet...

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