Jeddrey v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff by reason of one of the defendant’s electric cars running into an ice wagon, which he was driving on Bridge Street in Salem, and throwing him to the ground. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Essex dated November 21, 1903. There was a trial before Wait, J., who, at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, directed a verdict for the defendant, and the plaintiff excepted. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff by reason of one of the defendant’s electric cars running into an ice wagon, which he was driving on Bridge Street in Salem, and throwing him to the ground. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Essex dated November 21, 1903. There was a trial before Wait, J., who, at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, directed a verdict for the defendant, and the plaintiff excepted. The facts are stated in the opinion. The case was submitted on briefs.
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
The plaintiff was driving an ice wagon on a principal street in Salem, in the centre of which were two parallel tracks of the defendant. The street ran generally in an easterly and westerly direction, and the plaintiff was proceeding westward on the northerly side of the street. He was driving a pair of horses attached to an ordinary covered, springless ice cart, with no cut under, weighing from two thousand eight hundred to three thousand pounds, which was loaded with about three and one half tons of ice. His employer’s office was on the southerly side of the street, and nearly opposite the…
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