Hirst v. Chevrolet Motor Co.

The several plaintiffs were injured on July 16, 1924, when they were riding in an automobile manufactured by the defendant and sold to the plaintiff Elizabeth June 22, 1923, by the Summer Street Garage in Malden. They bring *157these actions of tort alleging that the defendant was negligent in the assemblage of the parts of a ball and socket joint at the end of a drag link in the steering gear of the automobile, and that their injuries resulted because the joints separated while they were descending a hill in Townsend. The cases were tried together. The judge directed verdicts for the defendant.…