Boutlier v. City of Malden
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Three actions of tort, each of them brought by the administratrix of the estate of Ralph Howard Boutlier, late of Malden, the first against the city of Malden under R. L. c. 51, §§ 17, 18, for the loss of life and bodily injury of the plaintiff’s intestate alleged to have been caused on October 20, 1913, by a defect in Lynn Street, a highway of the defendant, consisting of a loose wire dangerously charged with electricity and negligently permitted to hang down upon such…
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Three actions of tort, each of them brought by the administratrix of the estate of Ralph Howard Boutlier, late of Malden, the first against the city of Malden under R. L. c. 51, §§ 17, 18, for the loss of life and bodily injury of the plaintiff’s intestate alleged to have been caused on October 20, 1913, by a defect in Lynn Street, a highway of the defendant, consisting of a loose wire dangerously charged with electricity and negligently permitted to hang down upon such highway, and the second and third actions, respectively against the Malden Electric Company and the Suburban Gas and…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
These are three actions to recover for the conscious suffering and death of the plaintiff’s intestate who was killed on the evening of October 20, 1913, by reason of coming in contact with a wire charged with electricity. He hereafter will be referred to as the intestate. At the time of the intestate’s injury and death he was seventeen years of age. Several years previously he had been legally adopted by the administratrix and her
husband and lived with her at the time of the accident. At the conclusion of the evidence the presiding judge ordered a verdict for the defendant in each case and…
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- Leahan v. CochranMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1901
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