Legal Opinion
McGovern v. Thomas
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 28, 1945PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQua, J.
This is an action by a minor plaintiff to recover for personal injury to himself and by his father to recover consequential damages (see G. L. [Ter. Ed.] c. 231, § 6A, inserted by St. 1939, c. 372, § 1), all as the result of the minor plaintiff’s being struck by an automobile driven by the defendant on Chapman Street in Quincy on September 8, 1941.
Chapman Street runs north and south and is twenty-four feet wide between curbs. The father, a truck driver, had taken the eight year old minor plaintiff with him in the cab of the truck. The father parked the seventeen foot truck on the westerly…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Boni v. GoldsteinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
- Lovett v. ScottMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
- Lynch v. KrancerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
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3Cited by11 opinions
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- Cleary v. St. GeorgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1957
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