Gondek v. Cudahy Packing Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Four actions of tort, the first action being for personal injuries and the destruction of a horse and wagon alleged to have been caused by a collision between the horse and wagon and a motor vehicle driven by one Larivee, alleged to have been an employee of the defendant acting negligently and within the scope of his employment, and for consequential damages resulting from personal injuries to the wife of the plaintiff in that action, the plaintiff in the second action; and…
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Four actions of tort, the first action being for personal injuries and the destruction of a horse and wagon alleged to have been caused by a collision between the horse and wagon and a motor vehicle driven by one Larivee, alleged to have been an employee of the defendant acting negligently and within the scope of his employment, and for consequential damages resulting from personal injuries to the wife of the plaintiff in that action, the plaintiff in the second action; and the other three actions being for personal injuries received in the same accident. Writs dated July 13, 1918. In the…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
These are four actions of tort whereby the plaintiffs seek to recover compensation for injuries sustained by them on June 22, 1918, through collision with an automobile owned by the defendant. Confessedly the plaintiffs, at the time travellers on a highway in Dracut in this Commonwealth, were in the exercise of due care and the operator of the automobile was negligent.
The defendant is a corporation domiciled in Maine, but had maintained in 1918 for more than thirty days before the plaintiffs’ injuries several places of business in Massachusetts. It also maintained at Nashua, in the State of…
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