Legal Opinion
Butler v. Curran
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 28, 1938PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQua, J.
These are actions against the operator and the owner, respectively, of an automobile that collided with a bicycle ridden by the plaintiff on Crescent Street in Brockton in the late afternoon of January 27, 1932.
An auditor found that the defendant operator was negligent, and that the plaintiff, who at the time of the accident was twelve years old, was in the exercise of due care for a person of his age. These findings remained evidence in the case, although other evidence was introduced at the trial. They made it impossible rightly to direct verdicts for the defendants on either of these…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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3Cited by9 opinions
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