Powers v. Loring
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by the administratrix of the estate of Edward L. Powers, late of Cambridge, under It. L. c. 171, § 2, as amended by St. 1907, c. 375, for causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate by running over him with a motor car driven negligently by a servant of the defendant acting within the scope of his authority on Washington Street in Weymouth near its junction with Main Street in that town at about half past six o’clock in the evening of October 12, 1916..
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Tort by the administratrix of the estate of Edward L. Powers, late of Cambridge, under It. L. c. 171, § 2, as amended by St. 1907, c. 375, for causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate by running over him with a motor car driven negligently by a servant of the defendant acting within the scope of his authority on Washington Street in Weymouth near its junction with Main Street in that town at about half past six o’clock in the evening of October 12, 1916.. Writ dated November 21, 1916. . The defendant’s answer, besides a general denial, contained an allegation that the plaintiff’s…
1Opinion of the CourtB.ttgg, C. J.
There was testimony tending to show that at half after six o’clock on the evening of Columbus Day, 1916, while leading two horses on the right of the middle of a much travelled highway near the town of Weymouth, the plaintiff’s intestate, walking on the left of the horses but still to his right of the middle of the way, was fatally injured by being struck-by a motor car approaching from behind and driven in the same direction at the rate of about twenty-six -miles an hour by an *460agent of the defendant engaged in the business of the latter. The road in general was straight, with a slight bend…
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