Patrick v. Deziel
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries suffered on June 28, 1915, when the plaintiff, • a boy twelve years of age, was run into from behind, as he was rolling a hoop in Mammoth Road in Lowell, by an automobile owned and driven by the defendant. Writ dated July 17, 1915. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Keating, J. The substance of the plaintiff’s testimony and of some of the testimony of occupants of the defendant’s automobile is described in the opinion.
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Tort for personal injuries suffered on June 28, 1915, when the plaintiff, • a boy twelve years of age, was run into from behind, as he was rolling a hoop in Mammoth Road in Lowell, by an automobile owned and driven by the defendant. Writ dated July 17, 1915. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Keating, J. The substance of the plaintiff’s testimony and of some of the testimony of occupants of the defendant’s automobile is described in the opinion. One George Stewart, a witness called by the defendant, testified in substance that he had been a teamster for fifteen years, that he was…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
The plaintiff, a boy twelve years old, was struck on June 28, 1915, by an automobile operated by the defendant upon a public highway in Lowell, and received the injuries for which this action is brought.
The highway is seventy-two feet wide between the curbstones and runs in a northerly and southerly direction; and in the centre there is a single street railway track. The accident happened at about half past four o’clock in the afternoon.
The plaintiff, who was rolling a large iron hoop along the sidewalk on the easterly side of the street, crossed the street diagonally in a southerly…
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