Murphy v. Avery Chemical Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort for the alleged negligent causing of conscious suffering and the death of one Fauntley M. McKhight, the plaintiff’s intestate. Writs dated May 18, 1917. In the Superior Court, the actions were tried together before .Sisk, J. Material evidence is described in the opinion. At the dose of the evidence, on motions by the defendants, the judge ordered verdicts for the defendants; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
These two actions of tort for the death and conscious suffering of Fauntley M. McKnight were tried together in the Superior Court. A verdict for each of the defendants was directed.
The plaintiff’s intestate, while driving an automobile at a place where a way leading to the premises of the Avery Chemical Com-*152pony crossed the main and spur track of the Boston and Maine Railroad, was struck by one of its trains and received injuries' from which he died. He had delivered six kegs of nails at the plant of the Avery Chemical Company and then started to leave the premises by the same road he had…
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