Horgan v. Pacific Mills
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for damages for the loss of service of the plaintiff’s daughter, a minor, and for labor performed and expenses incurred in the care and cure of her daughter in consequence of injuries received by her through the negligence of the defendant.
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Tort for damages for the loss of service of the plaintiff’s daughter, a minor, and for labor performed and expenses incurred in the care and cure of her daughter in consequence of injuries received by her through the negligence of the defendant. The writ was dated March 23, 1886. An action against the same defendant had previously been brought by the daughter for damages for the injuries received by her, and that action had been settled by the parties on October 26, 1885. In the Superior Court the case was referred to an auditor, who found that the plaintiff was entitled to recover the sum of…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
The plaintiff’s daughter when injured was eleven years old, and it appears that she, with her sisters, one older and two younger than herself, lived with their mother, who was a widow, as members of one family, and that the children were dependent for support on the mother, and rendered some service to her “ in work about the house and in tending a small shop which was the front room of the tenement in which they lived.” In consequence of the injury the plaintiff suffered loss of her daughter’s services, and was put to expense in providing medical attendance for her, and to labor and trouble…
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