Legal Opinion
Whalen v. Worcester Electric Light Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 31, 1940PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.
The plaintiffs, together with several hundred persons, were standing upon Madison Street near the corner of Beacon Street (both public ways in Worcester) on October 21, 1936, for the purpose of seeing the President of the United States as he passed along the ways, and were injured by the fall of a traffic light pole, located upon the sidewalk. The pole fell into the street when efforts were being made by the police and members of the crowd to push down the middle of a rope that extended across Madison Street and was attached to the traffic pole close enough to the surface of the street to…
2Cases cited54 opinions
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- School Committee of the City of Lowell v. Mayor of LowellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1928
- Russell v. FoleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
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3Cited by50 opinions
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