Huggon v. Whipple & Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on the morning of November 1, 1909, from being knocked down by an • electric automobile operated by a servant of the defendant when the plaintiff was attempting to cross Commercial Street in Boston at a cross walk at its intersection with Clinton Street, on the right hand side of which the plaintiff had been walking.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on the morning of November 1, 1909, from being knocked down by an • electric automobile operated by a servant of the defendant when the plaintiff was attempting to cross Commercial Street in Boston at a cross walk at its intersection with Clinton Street, on the right hand side of which the plaintiff had been walking. Writ dated April 29, 1910. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Wait, J. It appeared that the defendant had a contract to transport United States mail matter between the post office in Boston and the post offices in…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
While the plaintiff was endeavoring to cross Commercial Street in Boston, at the crossing in a line with the southerly sidewalk of Clinton Street, he was struck by an automobile driven by a servant of the defendant and was injured. After a verdict for the plaintiff the case is here upon exceptions' to the refusal of the judge to direct a verdict for the defendant.
Both the plaintiff and the defendant were properly upon the highway, and each had the right of travellers thereon. The evidence, as is usual in such cases, was somewhat conflicting, and furnished fair material for an argument in…
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