Hall v. Ripley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two ACTIONS of Tort for injuries caused by the collision of the carriages of the respective parties on Beacon Street in Boston. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Putnam, J., it appeared from the evidence of both parties that the collision took place between eight and nine o’clock in the evening of July 7, 1873, and that the part of Beacon Street where the collision occurred was about fifty feet wide between the sidewalks.
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Two ACTIONS of Tort for injuries caused by the collision of the carriages of the respective parties on Beacon Street in Boston. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Putnam, J., it appeared from the evidence of both parties that the collision took place between eight and nine o’clock in the evening of July 7, 1873, and that the part of Beacon Street where the collision occurred was about fifty feet wide between the sidewalks. The evidence offered by Hall tended to show that he was driving into the city on the right hand side of the road, within a few feet of the edgestone; that…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
These cases were rightly submitted to the jury, and with apt and sufficient instructions. Damon v. Scituate, ante, 66, and cases cited. Exceptions overruled.
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