Taylor v. Pierce Bros.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort under St. 1909, c. 514, § 129, by the father and mother of Robert A. Taylor, a minor, late of New Bedford, who were alleged to have been his next of kin and dependent upon his wages for support, for his instantaneous death on August 16, 1910, when he was employed in the defendant’s cotton mill in New Bedford.
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Tort under St. 1909, c. 514, § 129, by the father and mother of Robert A. Taylor, a minor, late of New Bedford, who were alleged to have been his next of kin and dependent upon his wages for support, for his instantaneous death on August 16, 1910, when he was employed in the defendant’s cotton mill in New Bedford. Writ dated November 19, 1910. At the trial in the Superior Court before Dubuque, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs in the sum of $2,500; and the defendant alleged exceptions. The case came on to be argued before this court upon the defendant’s exceptions, whereupon…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
This is a motion that the defendant’s exceptions, because of their length and form, be disposed of by ordering judgment for the plaintiffs on the verdict. The exceptions are obnoxious to the rule stated in Cornell-Andrews Smelting Co. v. Boston & Providence Railroad, 215 Mass. 381, 387, and reiterated with emphasis in Isenbeck v. Burroughs, 217 Mass. 537, Romana v. Boston Elevated Railway, 218 Mass. 76, 81, and Corsick v. Boston Elevated Railway, 218 Mass. 144. Much of the evidence is set forth by question and answer, which should have been abbreviated and put in narrative form.…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Romana v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Cornell-Andrews Smelting Co. v. Boston & Providence RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
- Corsick v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Isenbeck v. BurroughsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
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- Zacharer v. Town of WakefieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
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