Schienfeldt v. Norris
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff in being run over by a wagon in charge of the defendant’s ser vont in a public street, in the city of Boston.
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Tort, to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff in being run over by a wagon in charge of the defendant’s ser vont in a public street, in the city of Boston. Trial in the Su perior Court before Putnam, J., who, after a verdict for the plaintiff,' allowed the following bill of exceptions : “ The evidence introduced by the plaintiff to show ordinary care on his own part and negligence on the part of the defend ant’s servant, was as follows: The plaintiff testified: ‘ I keep store on Federal Street. On Friday, September 8, 1871, at quarter past seven o’clock in the morning, I…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The questions of ordinary care on the part of the plaintiff and negligence on the part of the defendant were rightly submitted to the jury upon the evidence.
Exceptions overruled.
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