MURPHY v. BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD


332 Mass. 123 (1954)

123 N.E.2d 378

ELIZABETH J. MURPHY vs. BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 30, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert S. Avery, for the plaintiff.

George W. McLaughlin, for the defendant.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, WILKINS, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


LUMMUS, J.

In this action of tort for personal injuries sustained by a fall on High Street in Medford where that street crosses the tracks of the defendant, the only question before us is the sufficiency of a notice given by the plaintiff.

By G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 84, § 18, as it appears in St. 1933, c. 114, § 1, the plaintiff was required within thirty days to give to the "person" obliged by law to keep the way in repair, notice, among other things...

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