Chevalier v. Boston & Maine Railroad

The decedent was employed in a machine shop in Nashua. At the time of the collision he was driving west on route 101-A toward his home in Amherst. He had worked in Nashua for a year and a half and had passed over Ponomah Crossing twice each working day during that period. He was returning from work when the accident happened.

A witness who was driving behind the decedent stated that it was snowing very hard, that the wet snow stuck to his windshield, and that he could not see plainly except through the space cleared by his “sleet cleaner.” He testified that the time was “about four-thirty” in…