Hirrel v. Lacey

This is an action of tort to recover damages for the death of a boy, six and one half years of age, alleged to have resulted from the negligence of the defendants.

There was evidence tending to show that the deceased child and his sister, about eight and one half years old, at about half past seven on an April morning left their home on the north side of Mystic Avenue in Medford and walked along a dirt and gravel sidewalk on that street about one hundred feet when they came to a driveway leading across the sidewalk into the defendants’ place of business; that the sister was on the outside of…