O'Brien v. Hudner
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries. Writ dated November 9, 1900. In the Superior Court Mason, C. J. ordered a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
This is an action by a child eight years of age for being run over by a wagon of the defendant, driven by a servant of the defendant in the course of the defendant’s business. It appeared that -the plaintiff had been allowed by her mother to go out to play in the yard of the house where she lived; that she and her older sister played in the yard for a time, and then her sister suggested that they should play in the street, and they left the yard for that purpose. After playing at jump rope in the street for a short while, the plaintiff was run over, as already stated. The accident happened on…
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