Richardson v. Inhabitants of Danvers
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while riding on Maple Street, a highway in the defendant town. Trial in the Superior Court, before Richardson, J., who refused to rule, as requested by the defendant, that a bicycle was not a carriage within the meaning of that term in the Pub. Sts. c. 52, § 1; and the defendant excepted. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The plaintiff, while riding a bicycle on a highway which the defendant was bound to keep in repair, encountered a depression in the way, and fell from her wheel and was injured. The jury returned a verdict in her favor, and the case comes before us on several exceptions to the exclusion of evidence, and to the refusal of the court to rule that a bicycle is not a carriage within the meaning of the Pub. Sts. c. 52, § 1.
The statute in question provides that highways and other ways named shall be kept in repair, at the expense of the town, city, or place where they are situated, “ so that the…
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