Mair v. Whittemore Co.

This is an action to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while standing on the sidewalk on Washington Street, near Codman Square, in Boston. The case was tried with another case brought by this plaintiff against Edmund F. McKenna to recover for the same injuries. In each case the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $1,500.

There was evidence from which it could have ‘been found that the defendant’s truck was parked on the left side of the street facing against traffic with the left wheels from one and a half to two feet from the curbstone; that on the…