Woods v. City of Boston
Cases that cite this one
17 later published cases cite this decision.
- Urquhart v. Smith & Anthony Co. (Mass. 1906)
- Tebbs v. Alcoa Steamship Co. (District Court, Virgin Islands 1956)
- Town of Argos v. Harley (Ind. Ct. App. 1943)
- Doloian v. Town of Auburn (Mass. 1935)
- Lawson v. City of Waterbury (Conn. 1932)
- Judson v. American Railway Express Co. (Mass. 1922)
- Gilbane v. Lent (R.I. 1918)
- Burke v. City of Lynn (Mass. 1914)
- City of Ashland v. Boggs (Ky. Ct. App. 1914)
- Feeley v. City of Melrose (Mass. 1910)
- Doyle v. Eschen (Cal. Ct. App. 1907)
- Owens v. Harvard Brewing Co. (Mass. 1907)
- City of Valparaiso v. Schwerdt (Ind. Ct. App. 1907)
- Ohliger v. Toledo (Lucas Circuit Court 1900)
- Ohliger v. City of Toledo (Lucas Circuit Court 1900)
- Flynn v. Inhabitants of Watertown (Mass. 1899)
- Stephens v. City of Macon (Mo. 1884)
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Opinion of the Court
The surrounding circumstances, and the conduct of the plaintiff at the time she stepped into the hole in the sidewalk, were fully disclosed by the evidence. It cannot be said to appear conclusively that she was careless, because she failed to keep her eyes constantly upon the sidewalk before her. Whether she was in the exercise of that due care which persons of common prudence would exercise under like circumstances, was properly submitted to the jury. Mayo v. Boston & Maine Railroad, 104 Mass. 137. French v. Taunton Branch Railroad, 116 Mass. 537. Hill v. Seekonk, 119 Mass. 85. Hunt v. Salem, ante, 294. Exceptions overruled.
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