Boyle v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by the administratrix of the estate of Luke A. Boyle, late of Worcester, under St. 1907, c. 392, for causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate by running into him with a street railway car of the defendant on September 4, 1915, on Front Street in Worcester.
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Tort by the administratrix of the estate of Luke A. Boyle, late of Worcester, under St. 1907, c. 392, for causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate by running into him with a street railway car of the defendant on September 4, 1915, on Front Street in Worcester. Writ dated November 12, 1915. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Morton, J., who at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, which is described in the opinion, on motion of the defendant ordered a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff alleged exceptions. The case was submitted on briefs.
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The plaintiff’s intestate was struck by one of the defendant’s cars while walking across Front Street, in Worcester, from tlie Common in the direction of Commercial Street, about five o’clock in the evening of September 4, 1915. He died from his injuries.
Front Street at this point is sixty feet wide and paved with granite blocks. The southerly rail of the defendant’s east bound *185track is about twenty-one and a half feet, and the southerly rail of the west bound track about thirty-two feet, from the curb on the sidewalk on the Common side. The day was clear. The car which struck the intestate…
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