O'Brien v. Blue Hill Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for injuries to the plaintiff and the plaintiff’s horse and wagon, from the horse being frightened through the alleged negligence of the defendant’s servants operating a car on Washington Street in Canton. Writ dated March 26, 1900. At the trial in the Superior Court Fessenden, J. ordered a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
Though the evidence was conflicting, it appeared from the plaintiff’s statement that while he was driving along Washington Street, a public way in the town of Canton, it became necessary for him, in order to pass safely another traveller by carriage, to turn from the middle of .the street to *447the right, and drive directly on to the tracks of the defendant’s road located on the easterly side of the way, and as he continued his course and came to a turn in the road, he was wai’ned by the vibration of the trolley wire that a car was approaching, and immediately turned to the left in order to…
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