Creavin v. Newton Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiffs by the collision of a covered express wagon on which they were riding with an electric car. Trial in the Superior Court, before Hardy, J., who directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiffs alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
The only question in this case is whether there was evidence that the plaintiffs were in the exercise of due care. The plaintiffs were injured by a collision between their wagon and an electric car. The plaintiff Creavin was an expressman, and was driving with the plaintiff Connors, who was employed by him, in an ordinary covered express cart, northeasterly up Pine Street to cross River Street in West Newton, at about half-past eight o’clock, on the evening of December 22. The electric cars run on the southerly side of River Street, close to the sidewalk on that side of the street. Pine…
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