Boyd v. Ellison

These are separate actions of tort, tried together to a jury, the evidence being the same in all, to recover damages for injuries received by the several plaintiffs as the result of the collision of a double-runner sled, on which they were coasting on Mill Street in the city of Haverhill, with an automobile, owned by the defendant Ellison Motor Company and driven by the defendant John O. Ellison. The accident happened a short distance up from the intersection of Mill Street and Water Street, on the evening of December 29, 1921, about 9 or 9:15 o’clock of a“ very dark night.” At the time of…