Dakin v. City of Somerville

This is an action to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while travelling upon a motorcycle on Powder House Boulevard, so called, in the city of Somerville. The boulevard is eighty feet wide throughout its entire length; it “is constructed with a Macadam roadbed, surfaced with gravel, asphalt and tar, with concrete sidewalks on either side with edge stones, street lights and sewers.” There are twelve intersecting streets which cross the boulevard, and buildings are constructed along its entire length on the fine of the sidewalks.

It was admitted at the trial that the…