Collins v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for injuries to the plaintiff’s horse and buggy from being struck by a car of the defendant at about nine o’clock on the evening of June 25, 1910, when one McDonough was driving the horse across the defendant’s tracks on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, intending to go into Cambridge Street.
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Tort for injuries to the plaintiff’s horse and buggy from being struck by a car of the defendant at about nine o’clock on the evening of June 25, 1910, when one McDonough was driving the horse across the defendant’s tracks on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, intending to go into Cambridge Street. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated October 15, 1910. On appeal to the Superior Court the case was tried before Fox, J., who at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, which is described in the opinion, ordered a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff alleged exceptions. It was…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
This is an action in which the plaintiff seeks to recover damages for injury to his horse and buggy caused by a collision with one of the defendant’s cars. Taking the view of the facts which is most favorable to the plaintiff, they were as follows:
At the time of the accident the horse was being driven by the plaintiff’s servant, one McDonough by name. When McDonough came to the junction of Garden Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, he saw an inbound car coming down the avenue. Thereupon he turned to the left and drove up the avenue until the inbound car had passed. He then looked…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Fitzgerald v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Willis v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- Cokinos v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
3Cited by6 opinions
- Pigeon v. Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1918
- Joyce v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
- Arnold v. ColbertMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1930
- Dole v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
- Grant v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1918
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