RILEY v. NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO.


354 Mass. 8 (1968)

234 N.E.2d 746

RAYMOND RILEY vs. NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 5, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert P. Zabin for the plaintiff.

Leon F. Sargent for the defendant New England Telephone and Telegraph Company.

John Arthur Johnson for the defendant Boston Edison Company.

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


WHITTEMORE, J.

The plaintiff sought recovery for injuries sustained when his truck driven by him slid on his icy driveway on Gambier Street, a public way in Newton, against a pole jointly owned by the defendants in the public way at the corner of the driveway. The judge in the Superior Court directed verdicts for the defendants.

Most of the facts are not in dispute. The plaintiff's driveway was nine feet wide. There was a stone wall along its inner edge which...

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