Hooe v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Four actions oe tort against the Boston and Northern Street Railway Company, the Middleton and Danvers Street Railway Company and Loring N. Farnum, for personal injuries from explosions of dynamite, as stated in the first paragraph of the opinion, which occurred on a highway called the Old Salem Turnpike in North Andover, where the defendant Farnum was engaged in laying a line of track under a contract with the Middleton and Danvers Street Railway Company.
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Four actions oe tort against the Boston and Northern Street Railway Company, the Middleton and Danvers Street Railway Company and Loring N. Farnum, for personal injuries from explosions of dynamite, as stated in the first paragraph of the opinion, which occurred on a highway called the Old Salem Turnpike in North Andover, where the defendant Farnum was engaged in laying a line of track under a contract with the Middleton and Danvers Street Railway Company. Writs dated March 21 and April 16, 1902. In the Superior Court all the cases were tried before Law-ton, J., those of Hooe, Welch and Lane…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The first three cases were brought to recover damages caused by an explosion of dynamite on February 14,1902, and the fourth was brought against the same defendants, to recover for a similar explosion which occurred on February 15, 1902. The first three cases were tried together in the Superior Court, and the four were argued together in this court. We will consider first the exceptions of the defendant Farnum in the first three cases.
The plaintiffs were admitted to have been in the exercise of due care. The explosion occurred in the morning, while the men were at work with pick and shovel,…
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