Bowman v. City of Newburyport

These are two actions of tort, tried together. The plaintiff in the first action, a minor, seeks to recover damages for personal injuries, and the plaintiff in the second, his father, to recover for consequential damages. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in each action, but, under leave reserved and subject to the plaintiffs’ exceptions, verdicts were entered for the defendant. It is apparent that the declarations are drawn under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 84, § 15, to recover damages for a defect in a public way.

*480The jury could have found that at about eleven o’clock in the forenoon of…