PARIS v. HOWARD D. JOHNSON CO.


340 Mass. 739 (1960)

166 N.E.2d 735

RACHEL PARIS vs. HOWARD D. JOHNSON COMPANY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 28, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sturtevant Burr, (William C. Gardiner with him,) for the defendant.

William R. Whalon, for the plaintiff.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WILLIAMS, COUNIHAN, & CUTTER, JJ.


SPALDING, J.

A jury, on the basis of an auditor's report and other evidence, returned a verdict for the plaintiff in this action of tort. The defendant excepted to certain rulings of the judge, but the only one that need concern us is the denial of the defendant's motion for a directed verdict.

Findings of the auditor include the following. On April 26, 1956, at about 7:15 P.M. the plaintiff and her escort, after parking their automobile on Harvard Street...

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