Hill v. City of Boston

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts · Decided 1877-03-12

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Gray, C. J. This is an action of tort against the city of Boston. The plaintiff, who sues by his next friend, offered to prove at the trial that in May, 1874, he was of the age of eight years, and was a pupil attending a school in Boston, which was one of the public schools which the city was bound by law to keep and maintain; that this school was on the third floor of the building in which it was kept; that the staircase was wi…

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