Sawyer v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by the administratrix of the estate of Charles H. Sawyer for causing the death, without conscious suffering, of the plaintiff’s intestate on February 27, 1917, by knocking him down with a street railway car of the defendant on Millbury Street in Worcester. Writ dated March 22, 1917. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Fox, J. The evidence is described in the opinion.
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Tort by the administratrix of the estate of Charles H. Sawyer for causing the death, without conscious suffering, of the plaintiff’s intestate on February 27, 1917, by knocking him down with a street railway car of the defendant on Millbury Street in Worcester. Writ dated March 22, 1917. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Fox, J. The evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence • the plaintiff asked the judge to make the following rulings: . “1. Street cars, while they must run on tracks provided for them, have no exclusive right of way which puts upon…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is an action to recover damages for the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, who, while attempting to cross Millbury Street in Worcester at about eleven o’clock in the evening of February 27, 1917, was struck by an electric car of the defendant and received injuries which resulted in his death. Millbury Street extends in a northerly and southerly direction, and upon it.at the place of the accident the defendant maintained double tracks.
The case was submitted to the jury and a verdict was returned for the defendant.
The plaintiff excepted to the refusal of the presiding judge to give 'three…
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