Legal Opinion
Perry v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 2, 1948PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
This is an action of tort by a wife for personal injuries caused by the alleged negligent operation of an electric street car by the defendant, with a count under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 231, § 6A (St. 1939, c. 372, § 1), in which her husband claims consequential damages. Clouatre v. Lees, 321 Mass. 679. The jury returned verdicts for the defendant, and the case, comes here primarily on the exceptions of the plaintiffs. •
The electric car, on April 3, 1944, was travelling from the Reservoir in Brookline toward Lechmere Square in East Cambridge. At the time of the accident it had not reached…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Duggan v. Bay State Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1918
- Barnes v. Berkshire Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- Epstein v. Boston Housing AuthorityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
- Bolster v. Commissioner of Corporations & TaxationMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1946
- Plummer v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BinkiewiczMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1961
- Coyne v. John S. Tilley Co. Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- Dinardi v. HerookMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1952
- Potter v. John Bean Division of Food Machinery & Chemical Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1962
- Cahalane v. PoustMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1956
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