Nichols v. Holyoke Street Railway Co.

On December 21, 1920, an automobile owned and operated by the defendant Dowd struck an.automobile owned by the plaintiff Laura and operated by the plaintiff Leon, driving it into an excavation which the defendant Holyoke Street Railway Company had made in Dwight Street, Holyoke. The several plaintiffs brought separate actions for damages against the defendants. The four cases were tried together in the Superior Court. At the conclusion of the evidence, the judge directed verdicts for the defendants, and the cases are before us upon the plaintiffs’ exceptions to the correctness of these orders.