313 Mass. 54 | Mass. | 1943
The plaintiff, a customer of the defendant’s store in Lawrence, entered through the open door. Later, upon leaving the store, he walked into the door, which had been closed in the meantime, and which he failed to see, and was injured. The door, newly installed, consisted of one large piece of practically transparent glass swung on pins at top and bottom. The holes in the glass in which these pins were inserted were concealed by two small light colored plates fastened upon the surface of the door. The handles were vertical cylinders of glass, about a foot in length, fastened to the door by light colored metal fittings at each end. A photograph also shows on the door a metal plate with a key hole in it near the handle at about the usual position of a lock. There was no sign or inscription on the door and there was “practically nothing to interfere with . . . [its] complete transparency.” A day or two after the accident “the defendant stated that he had prevented several other customers from walking into the glass door.”
Order of Appellate Division affirmed.