Villineuve v. Manchester Street Railway
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for negligence. Trial by jury and verdict for tbe plaintiff. Transferred from tbe January term, 1904, of tbe superior court by JPeaslee, J. Tbe plaintiff, an employee of tbe defendants, was injured in a b'ead-on collision between a regular passenger car and a workmen’s car at about ten minutes before seven in the evening of July 16, 1901, on a curve south of “Thompson’s turnout.”
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Case, for negligence. Trial by jury and verdict for tbe plaintiff. Transferred from tbe January term, 1904, of tbe superior court by JPeaslee, J. Tbe plaintiff, an employee of tbe defendants, was injured in a b'ead-on collision between a regular passenger car and a workmen’s car at about ten minutes before seven in the evening of July 16, 1901, on a curve south of “Thompson’s turnout.” The plaintiff was motorman of tbe workmen’s car and was approaching tbe turnout in accordance with bis orders. Tbe passenger car did not wait at tbe turnout, and tbe question as to tbe defendants’ fault was…
1Opinion of the CourtPabsons, C. J.
The only exceptions relied upon are those arising from the refusal of the presiding justice to permit further examination of the witness Wilson, the motorman of the car which came in collision with the plaintiff’s car, causing the injury. A material question at the trial was whether Wilson was notified, or knew, that the plaintiff’s car was in front of his car on the single track. Wilson testified that prior to July 16 he had always been notified when the plaintiff’s car was out, that he was not notified on the day of the accident, and that he overheard a fellow-employee state in the presence…
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