National Laundry Co. v. City of Newton

The first and second actions are to recover for property damage, and the third and fourth actions for personal injuries, sustained respectively as the result of two separate accidents, both of which could be found to have occurred at about 8:30 to 9:00 o’clock in the morning of July 9, 1933, at nearly the same place on Commonwealth Avenue in the defendant city.

The principal question in each case is whether there was any evidence for the jury of a defect in the way under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 84, § 15.

Each accident was caused by the skidding of an automobile which was being driven at a moderate…