Underwood v. Old Colony Street Railway Co.

This is an action of trespass on the case, for negligence of the defendant railway company in causing the death of the plaintiffs’ testator. The plaintiffs in this case are the executrices of the deceased, who are suing for the benefit of the three adult daughters of the deceased.

On the eighteenth day of September, 1908, William Bailey, a man eighty-five years of age, was driving southerly on the the main road in Middletown toward his home. As he reached the driveway leading to his home he turned to go in, and was crossing the tracks of the defendant when one of its rapidly moving cars struck…