Harlow v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.

The plaintiff’s intestate, Ernest F. Harlow, was in the employ of a company operating motor trucks between Boston and Worcester. On the afternoon of December 31, 1922, a five-ton truck, about twenty-one feet long, nine and one half feet high, and painted a bright red color (upon which the plaintiff’s intestate was employed as a helper), while moving from Boston to Worcester in the town of Northborough and proceeding to ascend a hill at a grade of about six per cent, skidded, backed down and stopped with the left rear wheel of the truck on the car rail, the truck facing toward Worcester. The…