Woodman v. Powers

These are two actions of tort; in the first the plaintiff seeks to recover consequential damages arising from personal injuries received by his wife, who is the plaintiff in the second action. She was struck by an automobile operated by the defendant on Beacon Street in Brookline near Fairbanks Street, an intersecting way. The accident occurred shortly after nine o’clock in the evening of October 31,1916. The plaintiff in the second action will hereafter be referred to as the plaintiff.

She testified that on the evening she was injured she visited a friend who lived on the easterly side of…