Daigneau v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained on the evening of July 19, 1916, by reason of being struck by an electric street railway car of the defendant when the plaintiff was standing near a white post a few yards from the car barn at Lake Quinsigamond waiting for the car to stop.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained on the evening of July 19, 1916, by reason of being struck by an electric street railway car of the defendant when the plaintiff was standing near a white post a few yards from the car barn at Lake Quinsigamond waiting for the car to stop. Writ dated September 16, 1916. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Morton, J., who at the close of the evidence, which is described in the opinion, ordered a verdict for the defendant and by agreement of the parties reported the case for determination by this court with a stipulation that, if the ordering of…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is an action brought to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff, who was struck by an electric car of the defendant. At the close of the evidence, the presiding judge ordered a verdict for the defendant and reported the case to this court. All the evidence material to the issues involved is embodied in the report.
The plaintiff testified that he had spent the evening with his friend, one Boland, at the Lakeside Boat Club at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, and about 11:45 o’clock in the evening they started to take a car back to the city; that in order to reach a white post…
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