Sullivan v. Chadwick
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries suffered on May 10, 1917, by a boy then three years and nine months of age, when he was run into at the easterly end of the Plainfield Street bridge in Springfield by a motor car driven by the defendant. Writ dated August 10, 1917. In the Superior Court the action was tried before Callahan, J. Material evidence is described in the opinion. The defendant requested the following rulings of law: “1. Upon all the evidence the plaintiff cannot recover.
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Tort for personal injuries suffered on May 10, 1917, by a boy then three years and nine months of age, when he was run into at the easterly end of the Plainfield Street bridge in Springfield by a motor car driven by the defendant. Writ dated August 10, 1917. In the Superior Court the action was tried before Callahan, J. Material evidence is described in the opinion. The defendant requested the following rulings of law: “1. Upon all the evidence the plaintiff cannot recover. “2. In order to recover against the defendant, the plaintiff must maintain the burden of proof of the proposition that…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is an action of tort to recover compensation for personal injuries sustained at about three o’clock in the afternoon of May 10, 1917, by the plaintiff then three years and nine months old, on a public highway in Springfield by reason of collision with an automobile owned and driven by the defendant.
The judge ruled that there was no evidence that the child was in the care of any person at the time and that he was on the highway unattended by any person. The father of the plaintiff testified that when he left home at noon on the day of the accident the plaintiff was there, “that he did not…
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