Feital v. Middlesex Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort against a street railway corporation, for injuries result ing to the female plaintiff from an accident which happened while she was travelling in one of the defendants’ cars on the afternoon of Sunday, September 6,1868. At the trial in this court, before Wells, J., the plaintiffs introduced evidence that on the day in question they went from Charlestown to Boston, and there, about two o’clock in the afternoon, took passage on one of the defendants’ cars for Malden, and…
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Tort against a street railway corporation, for injuries result ing to the female plaintiff from an accident which happened while she was travelling in one of the defendants’ cars on the afternoon of Sunday, September 6,1868. At the trial in this court, before Wells, J., the plaintiffs introduced evidence that on the day in question they went from Charlestown to Boston, and there, about two o’clock in the afternoon, took passage on one of the defendants’ cars for Malden, and on their arrival at Malden went to a spiritualist camp-meeting, which was held in a field; that Mrs. Feital believed in…
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
The points made by the defendants upon these exceptions are all embraced in the requests for specific instructions. The instructions which were given in place of those requested are not stated, and must be taken to have been full and correct in other respects.
1. There was evidence tending to prove that the meeting which the plaintiff attended, and from which she was returning when injured, on the Lord’s day, was a religious meeting of those who held a religious belief in common with her; and that she attended it in good faith, for devotional exercise, as matter of conscience, and because the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Burroughs v. Norwich & Worcester RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
- Hill Manufacturing Co. v. Boston & Lowell RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
- Commonwealth v. SampsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
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- Allen v. DuffieMichigan Supreme Court · 1880
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