Davis v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received on September- 8, 1917, and alleged to have resulted from a collision between a motor vehicle which the plaintiff was driving and a street car negligently operated by the defendant. Writ dated September 17, 1917. In the Superior Court the action was tried before Sanderson, J. Material evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence, the defendant moved that a verdict be ordered in its favor. The motion was denied.
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Tort for personal injuries received on September- 8, 1917, and alleged to have resulted from a collision between a motor vehicle which the plaintiff was driving and a street car negligently operated by the defendant. Writ dated September 17, 1917. In the Superior Court the action was tried before Sanderson, J. Material evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence, the defendant moved that a verdict be ordered in its favor. The motion was denied. The jury found for the plaintiff in the sum of $922.92; and the defendant alleged exceptions. The case was submitted on briefs.
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
The plaintiff sues for personal injuries caused by a collision between an automobile driven by him and an electric car of the defendant. The collision occurred at the intersection of Lancaster Street, a public way in Leominster, and a road or driveway, referred to as Reed Avenue, leading from Lancaster Street in a northeasterly direction to the house of one Flood. At the time of the accident the car was proceeding in a southerly direction on Lancaster Street upon an ascending grade. There was evidence that cars stopped on signal at a white post about thirty feet southerly of the driveway to…
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- Ferguson v. Old Colony Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
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