Clark v. New England Telephone Co.

In the early afternoon of Saturday, October 15, 1966, Arthur C. Clark, eight-year-old son of the plaintiff, was riding his bicycle in an easterly direction along the northerly sidewalk of Greenland Road some three miles out of the center of Portsmouth, west of the intersection with Harvard Street. He was carrying across his handlebars a rake with which he expected to earn fifty cents by raking leaves for a local resident. He overtook a pedestrian on the sidewalk, whom he passed by riding over an adjoining lawn, returned to the sidewalk, and proceeded toward Harvard Street. As he came abreast…