Nickerson v. Boston & Maine Railroad

Florence Nickerson (hereinafter the plaintiff) and her husband had verdicts in the Superior Court in an action of tort for injuries sustained by the plaintiff, for consequential damages, and for damage to the husband’s automobile in a collision between the automobile and the defendant’s train of two Budd cars at the School Street crossing in Saugus on June 3, 1957, about 7 a.m. These are the defendant’s exceptions to the denial of a motion for directed verdicts and to parts of the charge.

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