Parsons v. Ryan

On August 6, 1956, at about 1:15 p.m., the minor plaintiff, age three (hereinafter the plaintiff), was observed by two neighbors lying injured on the paved way of Eastern Avenue, Gloucester, opposite the head of Cross Street, which joins Eastern Avenue, an east-west “main highway,” on its southerly side, and is about 100 or 120 yards in length. Mrs. Mary Martin, when at the front window of her house at 9 Eastern Avenue, the second house from the southwest corner of Cross Street, between 1 and 1:30 p.m., heard a little cry and “so she looked out.” She saw the plaintiff in the street and saw…