Quinlivan v. Taylor

These actions are brought respectively for personal injuries and for consequential damages arising out of a collision on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge between an automobile driven by the defendant in which the first named plaintiff, hereinafter called the plaintiff, was a passenger and a “safety island” with a “large circular affair on the end . . . with a light on top.”

The evidence upon which the plaintiffs must rely to establish the defendant’s gross negligence may be summarized as follows: The accident happened shortly after ten o’clock in the evening of March 1, 1933. It was snowing…