Bailey v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Four actions of tort, the first for damage to a motor car owned and operated by the plaintiff and each of the other three actions for personal injuries sustained while travelling as invited guests in the motor car of the plaintiff in the first case, such damage and injuries having been incurred between eight and nine o’clock on the evening of July 4, 1915, by reason of a collision of the motor car with a street railway car owned by the defendant and alleged to have been…
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Four actions of tort, the first for damage to a motor car owned and operated by the plaintiff and each of the other three actions for personal injuries sustained while travelling as invited guests in the motor car of the plaintiff in the first case, such damage and injuries having been incurred between eight and nine o’clock on the evening of July 4, 1915, by reason of a collision of the motor car with a street railway car owned by the defendant and alleged to have been operated negligently by the defendant’s servants on Grafton Street leading from the town of Grafton to the city of…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
These actions, which were tried together, arose out of a collision between a street railway car of the defendant and an automobile owned and operated by the plaintiff Bailey. A verdict has been returned in his favor for damage to the machine; and the other plaintiffs, who were travelling with him, have verdicts for the personal injuries sustained by them.
1. The jury were warranted in finding that the motorman was negligent. For a thousand feet or more the approaching automobile was within his view, yet he failed to shut off the brilliant headlight on his car until after the collision, in…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Stevens v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
- Bullard v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- Perlstein v. American Express Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1901
3Cited by4 opinions
- Griffin v. HustisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
- Burns v. Oliver Whyte Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
- Sarmento v. VanceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1918
- Keefe v. Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1928