Legal Opinion
Donovan v. Bernhard
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 2, 1911PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This is an action to recover damages for being struck and run over by a horse and wagon, while the plaintiff was passing over a crosswalk on Tremont Street, at a point near its junction with Huntington Avenue in Boston. The plaintiff’s exception is to an order of the presiding judge * that a verdict be returned for the defendant. There was evidence tending to show that the defendant’s servant, the driver of the horse, was guilty of negligence. The jury might have found that the horse was being driven rapidly, and that the driver was inattentive to his duty.
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2Cases cited15 opinions
- Hennessey v. TaylorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Robbins v. Springfield Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
- Fitzgerald v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Holian v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Shapleigh v. WymanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Ayers v. RatsheskyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
- Noyes v. WhitingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- Salisbury v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1921
- Shaw v. BoltonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1923
- Booth v. MeagherMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
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