Hovanesian v. Boyajian

These actions for personal injury and property damage all arise out of a collision between two automobiles on the Newburyport Turnpike, so called, at Rowley. The operators and passengers of both automobiles were friends who were travelling to Old Orchard, Maine, to spend the day.

In his opening to the jury counsel for the defendant said, “I think John Boyajian, the husband, will testify substantially as his wife does . . . look these people over. They are Armenians . . . They are friends ... I ask you to look these people over, that they were Armenians, that they are friends of these…