Vizacchero v. Rhode Island Company
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Trespass on the Case for. negligence. Heard on petition of defendant for new trial, and judgment for defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtDouglas, J.
This action is brought to recover damages for the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, who was struck and mortally wounded by one of the defendant’s electric trolley cars, which was coming towards the city, in the town of Johnston, about eight o’clock, P. M., March 8, 1903.
The place where the accident occurred was _ on Atwood avenue, a thinly settled country road fifty feet wide, having the car track located along one side, next to the sidewalk, leaving about thirty feet of unoccupied highway. The evening was dark and stormy, and the headlight and other lights of the car were lighted, and a…
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