Legal Opinion
Guinevan v. Checker Taxi Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 29, 1935PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDonahue, J.
The plaintiff with another woman, at about nine o’clock on a January evening, became a passenger for hire in a taxicab owned by the defendant and operated by one of its employees. Upon arriving at the plaintiff’s destination ten minutes afterwards, although no other motor vehicles occupied the space on the street next the curb, the driver stopped the taxicab five feet away from the sidewalk. The grade of the street in that vicinity sloped away from the center of the highway toward the curb, the slope being more pronounced near the curb, and the taxicab when stopped was “tilted” and had “a…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Wilson v. Colonial Air Transport, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- Bagnell v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1924
- Magee v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Gilman v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
- Labrie v. DonhamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Hathaway v. Checker Taxi Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1947
- McLean's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1948
- Finnegan v. Checker Taxi Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
- Willett v. PilotteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1953
- Lanagan v. Jordan Marsh Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
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