Legal Opinion
Karasek v. Bockus
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 31, 1936PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
The plaintiff was injured in New Hampshire when the right rear corner of a passing automobile grazed the left front of her own and she lost control. Possibly the operator of the passing automobile was ignorant of the collision. An important question was the identification of the defendant with that operator.
The defendant testified in his own defence that he was on the road but knew of no collision. The cross-examining counsel, who had no record of conviction of the defendant, drew from him testimony that a criminal case against him involving the same alleged collision had come before the…
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