Tuttle v. Connecticut Valley Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received when the plaintiff ■ was a passenger upon an electric street car of the defendant which came into collision with a motor truck on the road between Amherst and Northampton. Writ dated February 10, 1920. In the Superior Court, the action was tried before Aiken, C. J." Material evidence is described in the opinion.
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Tort for personal injuries received when the plaintiff ■ was a passenger upon an electric street car of the defendant which came into collision with a motor truck on the road between Amherst and Northampton. Writ dated February 10, 1920. In the Superior Court, the action was tried before Aiken, C. J." Material evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence, the defendant asked for the following rulings: “The defendant is not to be chargeable with negligence on the part of the motorman Reardon because of any mere error of judgment if the circumstances of the case are such…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
The plaintiff, while a passenger on an electric car of the defendant, was injured by reason of a collision between the car and an automobile truck which was stalled on the highway. The car was proceeding from Amherst westerly toward Northampton, the car track being located on the northerly side of the highway at the place of the collision where the macadam surface of the road was eighteen feet wide. Between the mac- adam and the track there was a space four feet in width covered with sand and fine gravel. The grade of the highway and the track was nearly level, descending to the west about…
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