Mulhall v. Fallon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tout, under St. 1887, c. 270, § 2, by the mother and next of kin of Patrick Mulhall, for causing his death without conscious suffering. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bell, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff ; and the defendants alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes', C. J.
This is an action under St. 1887, c. 270, § 2, for causing the death of the plaintiff’s son. The plaintiff is an Irishwoman who, so far as appears, never has left Ireland. In the Superior Court she had a verdict, and the case is here on exceptions to a refusal to direct a verdict for the defendants, either on the ground that the statute conferred no rights upon the plaintiff, or on the ground that she did not appear to have been dependent upon the wages of her son for support. Exceptions were taken also upon some matters of evidence.
On the question of the plaintiff’s dependence upon her son…
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