Piantedosi v. Bassett

This is an action of tort to recover compensation for personal injuries sustained on a clear September afternoon by the plaintiff, then four years and seven months old, by being run down on the street in front of his home by an automobile owned and operated by the defendant. His mother had left him in the custody of a neighbor who lived on the second floor of a house situated diagonally opposite the house where the plaintiff lived. There was testimony tending to show that the plaintiff wished to cross the street to his own home where his adult brother who had called to him was waiting. The…