361 Mass. 862 | Mass. | 1972
This is an action of tort for negligence in which the judge directed a verdict for the defendant. The case is here on the plaintiff’s exception to that action. We summarize the evidence. At 7:00 p.m. on December 29, 1966, the plaintiff was walking along a public sidewalk on Hillman Street in Springfield, on her way to the defendant’s department store. When at a point three feet from the defendant’s building and twenty feet from the main entrance to the store, she slipped on a patch of ice about one foot by one and one-half feet in size, fell and was injured. There had been no rain, sleet or snow that day. The sidewalk had been cleared at some unspecified time, but there remained several other patches of ice similar to the one where she fell, and none of them had been sanded or salted. Written notice was seasonably given to the defendant under G. L. c. 84, § 21. The judge properly directed a
Exceptions overruled.