Willis v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries from being run down by an electric car of the defendant between twelve and one o’clock in the daytime on June 4, 1907, at or near Main Street and Park Street in North Reading, when the plaintiff was driving a pair of horses, walking behind them, and was going to plow a field off Main Street, having taken the plow there earlier in the day, and having returned from the field to look for the spreader of the plow.
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Tort for personal injuries from being run down by an electric car of the defendant between twelve and one o’clock in the daytime on June 4, 1907, at or near Main Street and Park Street in North Reading, when the plaintiff was driving a pair of horses, walking behind them, and was going to plow a field off Main Street, having taken the plow there earlier in the day, and having returned from the field to look for the spreader of the plow. Writ dated October 3, 1907. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Hardy, J. The evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
At the time of the accident the defendant was operating a single track electric street railway between Reading and Lawrence. The track ran along the westerly side of Main Street through the village of North Reading where the accident occurred. Main Street runs nearly north and south and is crossed by Park Street at approximately a right angle, — the angle of intersection being a little nearer a right angle on the easterly side of Main Street than it is on the westerly side of the street. From a point opposite Park Street, Main Street is straight for about seventeen hundred feet in the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Fitzgerald v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Mathes v. Lowell, Lawrence & Haverhill Street RailwayMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1901
- Donovan v. Lynn & Boston RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
- Beirne v. Lawrence & Methuen Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Roberts v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
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