Selibedea v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained on June 11, 1913, when the plaintiff was fourteen years and ten months of age, from being struck by the side of a street railway car alleged to have been operated negligently by servants of the defendant on Bloomingdale Road, a public highway in the city of Worcester.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained on June 11, 1913, when the plaintiff was fourteen years and ten months of age, from being struck by the side of a street railway car alleged to have been operated negligently by servants of the defendant on Bloomingdale Road, a public highway in the city of Worcester. Writ dated July 16, 1913. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Hall, J. At the close of the evidence, which is described in the opinion, the defendant asked the judge to rule that upon all the evidence and the pleadings the plaintiff could not recover and that the verdict must be…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
The plaintiff, while upon a highway called Bloomingdale Road in the city of Worcester, came in contact with a car of the defendant and received the injuries for which he seeks to recover in this action. At the time he was injured he was fourteen years and ten months old. The accident occurred on June 11, 1913, at about twenty-five minutes past nine o’clock in the evening.
Bloomingdale Road is a street three rods wide, running in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction. The defendant maintained a single track in about the centre of the street. Before the accident a trench had been dug by…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Gray v. BatchelderMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Osborne v. Bay State Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Furey v. Worcester & Southbridge Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
3Cited by8 opinions
- Whalen v. MutrieMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1924
- Anger v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1918
- O'Donnell v. Bay State Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- Daigneau v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1918
- LaPlante v. MaguireMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
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