Kiander v. Brookline Gas Co.

• Decision Date: 18 June 1901
• Citation: 60 N.E. 796,179 Mass. 341
• Parties: KIANDER v. BROOKLINE GAS CO.
• Court: United States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Supreme Court

179 Mass. 341

60 N.E. 796

KIANDER v. BROOKLINE GAS CO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 18, 1901

COUNSEL

Charles W. Bartlett and Eldridge R. Anderson, for plaintiff.

Walter I.

Badger and Edward K. Woodworth, for defendant.

OPINION

LORING, J.

The judge was warranted in finding that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence. She had been using the closet for two months and one day, and must have been familiar with the gas pipe in question; yet she went into the closet between 6 and 7 o'clock in the morning of December 2d, without a light, and bumped her head against the pipe. Exceptions overruled.