Legal Opinion

Boutillette v. Robbins

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided December 5, 1958PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Williams, J. Edward A. Boutillette,

a minor, hereinafter called the plaintiff, was run over by a school bus in the schoolyard of Allen Joslin School in Oxford on April 8,1952. These are two actions of tort against the owner of the bus and its operator respectively to recover for his personal injuries and the consequential damage of his father.

The plaintiff, whose age does not appear, was a student at the school. There was testimony from his witnesses that while running toward the bus he fell behind it and before he was able to get up the bus "backed up and ran over . . . [him].” There was…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. TuckerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
  2. Commonwealth v. GiacomazzaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1942
  3. Commonwealth v. RetkovitzMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
  4. Griffin v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
  5. Wilson v. JeffreyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1951

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. WalkerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
  2. Commonwealth v. ZukoskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
  3. Commonwealth v. ReidMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
  4. Commonwealth v. PicklesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
  5. Commonwealth v. SaarelaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978

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