London v. Bay State Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, against the Bay State Street Railway Company, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on the afternoon of September 13, 1913, when he was travelling as a passenger on the running board of an open car of the defendant on Main Street in the town of Randolph and the car came into collision with a motor truck owned by the Hazen-Brown Company.
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Tort, against the Bay State Street Railway Company, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on the afternoon of September 13, 1913, when he was travelling as a passenger on the running board of an open car of the defendant on Main Street in the town of Randolph and the car came into collision with a motor truck owned by the Hazen-Brown Company. Writ dated August lj 1914. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Sisk, J. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $5,000; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which are described in the opinion, including those…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
In his closing argument the plaintiff’s counsel said, “If you gentlemen sitting here in this panel go to your jury room and come out and say that Morris London is to blame for his accident, — well, you make the law of Plymouth County, and you make it the law of Plymouth County that a man who is doing what Morris London was doing is not a prudent man. Was he not doing what you would do? Was he not doing what you would have done time and time again? I will pass the question. That’s all there is to it. . . . And on the evidence as it has been sub*484mitted and as I have tried to epitomize it here,…
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