MacKINNON v. MEDFORD


330 Mass. 70 (1953)

111 N.E.2d 449

ANNIE M. MacKINNON vs. CITY OF MEDFORD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

March 31, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vincent J. Celia, Assistant City Solicitor, (Mark E. Gallagher, Jr., City Solicitor, with him,) for the defendant.

Morris T. Silverstein, (Sydney S. Rosen with him,) for the plaintiff.

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


QUA, C.J.

The plaintiff alleged and introduced evidence to show that on May 20, 1947, she fell and was injured by reason of a hole in the sidewalk of Summit Road, a public way of the defendant city.

The action is brought under G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 84, §§ 1 and 15. These two sections have been read together to require that in order to recover a plaintiff must prove that he was a traveller upon the way. Blodgett...

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