Rooney v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while a passenger on the defendant’s train, which came in collision with another train. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Hardy, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions to certain instructions to the jury, which appear in the opinion. The case was argued at the bar in January, 1898, and after-wards was submitted on briefs to all the justices.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The defendant made no request for instructions to the jury, but excepted to two portions of the charge. The evidence tended to show that the plaintiff received a nervous shock at the time of the accident, which resulted in insanity. The accident occurred in October, 1894, and there was evidence that in August, 1895, an acquaintance of the plaintiff about her age, named James Dunn, was run over by a train and killed, and that the plaintiff not long afterwards saw his dead body. On October 24, 1895, another railroad accident occurred at Hyde Park, and the plaintiff saw the bodies of the injured…
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