Cunningham v. Thurman Transport, Inc.

This is an action of tort to recover for the death *825of the plaintiff’s son, aged three years and five months, caused by the negligent operation by the individual defendant of the truck of the corporate defendant. The plaintiff excepts to the direction of a verdict on behalf of each of the defendants. The evidence most favorable to the plaintiff is as follows: The truck, backed into a driveway behind a candy store in a densely populated neighborhood in Dorchester with many children, was parked with its motor running and its cab extending across the sidewalk into the street while the driver made…