HARTNETT v. BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY


346 Mass. 242 (1963)

191 N.E.2d 125

ANN HARTNETT & another vs. BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 7, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy J. Murphy for the plaintiffs.

Sturtevant Burr (Andrew F. Lane with him) for the defendant.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, CUTTER, KIRK, & SPIEGEL, JJ.


KIRK, J.

This is an action of tort based on negligence. Ann Hartnett seeks compensation for personal injuries sustained on October 22, 1958, when she was four years old, as the result of a fall into an outside stair well at the defendant's apartment building in Charlestown. Ann's father, the tenant, seeks consequential damages. The plaintiffs' exceptions to the allowance of the defendant's motion for directed verdicts and to certain rulings during the trial bring...

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