Parker v. Boston & Hingham Steamboat Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tobt against common carriers for injuries to a passenger in August 1869, caused by the fall of a gangway plank on which she was passing from a wharf to a steamboat of the defendants, and which the defendants were in fault in not having properly secured or tended.
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Tobt against common carriers for injuries to a passenger in August 1869, caused by the fall of a gangway plank on which she was passing from a wharf to a steamboat of the defendants, and which the defendants were in fault in not having properly secured or tended. On the trial at April term 1871 of this court, before Wells, J., Susan Parker, the plaintiff’s daughter, was allowed, against the defendants’ objection, to testify as follows : “ The plaintiff is decidedly worse than she was two months after the accident. She is not able to do so much work as before.” One Bradshaw, called as a…
1Opinion of the Court
Mobtoíi", J.
The first exception is to the ruling of the court admitting the testimony of a daughter of the plaintiff, to the effect that “the plaintiff is decidedly worse than she was two months after the accident. She is not able to do so much work as before.” The defendants object that this was a mere expression of opinion by the witness and therefore incompetent. There are many cases in which a witness may state the result of his observation, though it involves in some measure his opinion or judgment. Such are questions of the identity, size or distance of persons or things, and many…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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