LABREQUE v. HOLMES


189 A.2d 380 (1963)

Joseph Paul LABREQUE v. Orel E. HOLMES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

March 21, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Beauchamp, Lewiston, for plaintiff.

Mahoney, Desmond & Mahoney, by James R. Desmond, Portland, for defendant.

Before WILLIAMSON, C. J., and WEBBER, TAPLEY, SULLIVAN and SIDDALL, JJ.


WILLIAMSON, Chief Justice.

This negligence action is before us on appeal from the direction of a verdict for the defendant.

The plaintiff, a tenant of the defendant, fell on the ice while walking on the driveway which the parties used in common and which the defendant landlord had agreed to keep "cleaned and plowed." There was no evidence to indicate that the ice accumulated from other than natural causes.

The plaintiff, who had been ill for a short...

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