Grant v. Bangor Railway & Electric Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On'motion by defendant. Action on the case by the plaintiff to recover damages at common law for -personal injuries sustained -by her intestate, who was her child five years and three months old, by reason of being struck and run over by a street car of the defendant and which resulted in the death of the child a few hours after the injury.
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On'motion by defendant. Action on the case by the plaintiff to recover damages at common law for -personal injuries sustained -by her intestate, who was her child five years and three months old, by reason of being struck and run over by a street car of the defendant and which resulted in the death of the child a few hours after the injury. The declaration in the writ alleges that the deceased child “endured great conscious mental arid physical suffering from the effects of her said injuries for a long period of time, to wit, from the time of receiving her said injuries until the time of her…
1Opinion of the Court
'Cornish, J.
This is an action on the case brought by the plaintiff, as administratrix of the estate of Ida Bernice Grant, her deceased child five years and three months old, to recover damages at common law for injuries sustained by her intestate 'by reason of being struck and run over by a car of the defendant on Harlow Street in the city of Bangor, about 5.30 P. M., July 13, 1910, from which injuries the child died a few hours later. The case is before the Taw Court on defendant’s motion to set aside'the verdict as against the evidence.
The following facts are fairly established:
Mrs. Grant…
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- Gibbons v. WilliamsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
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