4 Mass. App. Ct. 860 | Mass. App. Ct. | 1976
1. There was evidence to the effect that the elevators in the authority’s building functioned properly at the start of the plaintiff’s tenancy in April, 1969; that sometime early in 1970 the elevators developed a sporadically occurring “jumping problem”; that the “jumping problem” was the cause of the plaintiff’s fall; and that the existence of the “jumping problem” had been reported to the authority’s maintenance man in the building on many occasions between early 1970 and the time of the plaintiff’s fall on September 5, 1970. The duration of the condition (which the jury could reasonably infer was a continuing
Judgments affirmed.