Case Name: Elizabeth Conly vs. Arthur W. Joslin & another
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1929-12-04
Citations: 269 Mass. 378
Docket Number: 
Parties: Elizabeth Conly vs. Arthur W. Joslin & another.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 269
Pages: 378–379

Head Matter:
Elizabeth Conly vs. Arthur W. Joslin & another.
Suffolk.
December 4, 1929.
December 4, 1929.
Present: Rugg, C.J., Crosby, Pierce, Carroll, & Wait, JJ.
.R. B. Heavens, for the defendants.
J. P. Walsh, for the plaintiff.

Opinion:
By the Court.
The plaintiff was injured by reason of a wire extending over a public sidewalk from land occupied by the defendants. She had known of the position of the wire for several months. On her way for a young grandchild who had strayed upon the public street she came in contact with the wire and was injured. The plaintiff by her knowledge of the wire was not precluded from recovery on the ground of assumption of risk or of want of due care. The case was rightly submitted to the jury. It is covered in every particular by Agnew v. Franks, 255 Mass. 539.
Exceptions overruled.