McGlauflin v. Boston & Maine Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Seven actions of tort for personal injuries caused on'July 27, 1915, at 8:20 o’clock in the evening, when a motor car,'driven by the plaintiff McGlauflin and in which the other plaintiffs were passengers for hire, ran into a freight car which was a part of a railroad train being operated by the defendant and at the time standing still across a grade crossing of the railroad with the highway between Hudson and Marlborough.
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Seven actions of tort for personal injuries caused on'July 27, 1915, at 8:20 o’clock in the evening, when a motor car,'driven by the plaintiff McGlauflin and in which the other plaintiffs were passengers for hire, ran into a freight car which was a part of a railroad train being operated by the defendant and at the time standing still across a grade crossing of the railroad with the highway between Hudson and Marlborough. Writ in the first named action dated September 18, 1915, and in all the other actions dated August 18, 1915. In the Superior Court the actions were tried together before…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The plaintiff McGlauflin was operating for hire an automobile, between Hudson and Marlborough, for the conveyance of passengers. The other plaintiffs boarded the automobile about eight o’clock in the evening, July 27, 1915, at Hudson, to be carried to Marlborough. About a mile from the starting place the public highway crosses the defendant’s railroad at grade. The railroad crossing cannot be seen by a person travelling in the direction in which the plaintiffs were going until within about two hundred and fifty to three hundred feet of it. There was an electric bell at the right of the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Berdos v. Tremont & Suffolk MillsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Trask v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Davis v. John L. Whiting & Son Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- Cross v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- White v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
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- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. GillespieIndiana Court of Appeals · 1930
- Gulf, M. N.R. Co. v. HolifieldMississippi Supreme Court · 1929
- Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. ComptonTexas Supreme Court · 1940
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