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Laffey v. Mullen

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided April 6, 1931PublishedCited by 35 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtWait, J.

The plaintiff was injured when a tandem motor cycle on which she was riding as a guest of the defendant, the driver, overturned in consequence of striking from behind a slowly moving horse-drawn tip cart. The accident took place on the broad and much used Taunton Turnpike in the dusk of a bitterly cold November afternoon. Both parties then were minors, the plaintiff seventeen and the defendant nineteen years of age. At the trial the judge, pursuant to leave reserved under G. L. c. 231, § 120,. ordered a verdict entered for the defendant. The case is before us upon the plaintiff’s exception to…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Sullivan v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
  2. Lambert v. Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
  3. Whiteacre v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
  4. Oppenheim v. BarkinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1928
  5. Fortune v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1930

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3Cited by35 opinions

  1. Maier Hanson v. HansonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
  2. Alamo v. Del RosarioCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1938
  3. Leveillee v. WrightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
  4. McFaden v. NordblomMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
  5. Topjian v. Boston Casing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934

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