320 Mass. 763 | Mass. | 1946
Exceptions overruled. This is an action of tort to recover compensation for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff. A verdict for the defendant was directed and the plaintiff excepted. There was no error. There was the following evidence: The plaintiff, a business visitor, was entering the defendant’s place of business through an entrance consisting of a revolving door. As she started through the revolving door, she was the only one entering or leaving by that door. The revolving door consisted of about five or six sections. As the plaintiff was entering and was between two partitions of the revolving door, “she heard a big noise and something snapped.” The rear partition of the section in which she was came forward, striking her and catching her between the rear and front partitions of the section she was in. At the time of the accident, the front partition of the section the plaintiff was in had not yet reached the opening into the store. As a result of the partitions coming together, the plaintiff was injured. After she released herself from the section of the revolving door, “she noticed about a half dozen men trying to fix the revolving door and trying to separate the partitions and pin them to