Harmon v. Old Colony Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, on February 29,1892, while upon a train on the defendant’s railroad. Trial in the Superior Court, before Fessenden, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows.
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Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, on February 29,1892, while upon a train on the defendant’s railroad. Trial in the Superior Court, before Fessenden, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The plaintiff testified, on direct examination, that before the accident she had had experience in keeping restaurants and boarding houses in Boston, having had the whole charge of three houses connected as one ; that she began thirty years before, and had been in the business up to within seven or eight years before the accident; that she was engaged at the…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The only ground relied on in support of the exceptions is that it was not competent for the plaintiff to show what her services would have been worth in the market to other persons. Upon reading the bill of exceptions we should hardly suppose that this question was presented or ruled on at the trial; but, if it was, we are of opinion that the evidence was competent. The instructions of the court as to the rule of damages are not stated, and no exception was taken to them. But if the plaintiff’s services had a market value, in the kind of business in which she was engaged, such market value…
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