Anger v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort by the executrix of the will of John B. Anger, late of Worcester, the first for causing the death of the plaintiff’s testator, and the second for causing his conscious suffering, by running into him with a street railway car of the defendant at about eighteen minutes past six o’clock in the afternoon of September 24,1916, near Prospect Park in the town of Auburn in the county of Worcester.
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Two actions of tort by the executrix of the will of John B. Anger, late of Worcester, the first for causing the death of the plaintiff’s testator, and the second for causing his conscious suffering, by running into him with a street railway car of the defendant at about eighteen minutes past six o’clock in the afternoon of September 24,1916, near Prospect Park in the town of Auburn in the county of Worcester. Writ dated November 2, 1916. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Bell, J. The evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence the judge on…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
The first action is brought to recover for the death of the plaintiff’s testator, John B. Anger; the second, is to recover for his conscious suffering.
The deceased was struck by an electric car operated by the defendant on the evening of September 24, 1916, near Prospect Park in the town of. Auburn. The record shows that the deceased and four others, two of whom were his sons, left a house in Auburn to board a trolley car at the Prospect Park station to go to Worcester; that, with one of his sons and one Cote, he walked along Bryn Mawr Avenue until they came to a point about eight hundred…
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