Prondecka v. Turners Falls Power & Electric Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort for the causing of personal injuries to and the deaths of the plaintiff’s intestates, John KashinsM and Leo Nawrocki. Writs dated September 22, 1919. The declarations are described in the opinion. The actions were tried together before Irwin, J. Material evidence and exceptions saved by the defendant are described in the opinion.
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Two actions of tort for the causing of personal injuries to and the deaths of the plaintiff’s intestates, John KashinsM and Leo Nawrocki. Writs dated September 22, 1919. The declarations are described in the opinion. The actions were tried together before Irwin, J. Material evidence and exceptions saved by the defendant are described in the opinion. The jury found for the plaintiff in each action on the first count of the declaration in the sum of $6,300; and the defendant alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtJenney, J.
These are two actions of tort in which recovery is sought because of the deaths of John ICashinski and Leo Nawrocki, the plaintiff’s intestates, who were drowned on September 13, 1919, in the Connecticut River a little below the dam at Turners Falls. In the morning of that day, Kashinski and Nawroclci went fishing in the river, below the dam which withheld a large body of water from the natural flow of the stream. After they had been fishing for some considerable time, one of two boys who had accompanied them noticed that the water was rising; by reason of its rising they were drowned.…
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