Legal Opinion
Cairney v. Cook
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 26, 1929PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
The plaintiff, a boy eight years of age, was struck and seriously injured while travelling on a sidewalk on Hawldns Street, a public way in Somerville, by a motor vehicle operated by the defendant out of an alley intersecting the sidewalk. There was evidence that as a result of the accident his hearing is totally destroyed. He did not testify at the trial. At the close of the evidence the trial judge on motion of the defendant directed a verdict in his favor, subject to the plaintiff’s exception.
There was evidence that while on his way home from school the plaintiff passed a building which…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Hennessey v. TaylorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Ayers v. RatsheskyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
- Menard v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890
- Trombley v. Stevens-Duryea Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
- Beale v. Old Colony Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Boni v. GoldsteinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
- Shwartz v. FeinbergMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
- Hirrel v. LaceyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
- Ellis v. EllisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
- White v. CalcuttMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1929
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