Court Opinion

ID: 9532261
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:19:40.594862+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:42.989226
License: Public Domain

Braucher, J.
(dissenting in part). I concur fully in the court’s ruling that the burden of proof should be on the defendant in this case to prove that it exercised due care. But I think the finding of the trial judge was warranted under the rule of Bean v. Security Fur Storage Warehouse, Inc. 344 Mass. 674, 676, “that the burden of going forward with the evidence falls upon the defendant.” The report shows only that the furniture was delivered to the defendant at its warehouse on one day, and that there was a fire at the warehouse the next day. *653Such a showing does not carry the defendant’s burden, and “an issue of fact” was “presented.” Ibid. I therefore dissent from the decision so far as it orders a new trial.