Ligero v. Martins

This action of trespass on the case for negligence was brought to recover for the death of the plaintiffs’ minor son. The case was heard by a justice of the Superior Court sitting without a jury. At the conclusion of the trial said justice rendered decision for the defendant. The case is here on plaintiffs’ exception to said decision.

While the defendant was backing his truck, upon which plaintiffs’ son was riding, out of a side street and across a main thoroughfare, the truck collided with a truck owned by Samuel and Louis Epstein, partners doing business as the National Sales Co.,…