Legal Opinion
Brennan v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 22, 1927PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The plaintiff’s intestate, four years and ten months old, was struck and killed by one of the defendant’s cars on Warren Street, Roxbury. The boy’s mother testified that she lived in the top apartment in a three-family house; that the family consisted of her husband, the intestate and four children older than the deceased, and one child who was younger; that the deceased was playing in the yard at the rear of the house; that from her tenement she could hear “the children . . . playing”; that the back of the yard was fenced, but there was no fence between her yard and the yard adjoining; “that…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Ayers v. RatsheskyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
- McDonough v. VozzelaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1924
- Hicks v. H. B. Church Truck Service Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1927
- Sullivan v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
- McNeil v. Boston Ice Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Capano v. MelchionnoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Birch v. StroutMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Dennehy v. Jordan Marsh Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1947
- King v. WeitzmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1929
- DeFuria v. MooneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
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