Legal Opinion
Short Line, Inc. v. Quinn
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 20, 1937PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
The plaintiff is a Rhode Island corporation operating as a common carrier for hire a line of motor omnibuses between Worcester and West Warren through the towns of Leicester and Spencer. It has complied with all the provisions of G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 159A and of c. 159B, the latter of which was inserted by St. 1934, c. 264.
A shoe manufacturing corporation in Spencer, having about twenty employees who lived in Worcester, contracted with the defendant to transport them daily in his motor omnibus from Worcester to Spencer and return. The defendant has been transporting them under his contract…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Rindge v. HolbrookSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1930
- Commonwealth v. HanaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Dodge v. . CorneliusNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. DeisterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1925
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