Barrett v. Lewiston, Brunswick & Bath Street Railway Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion by defendant. This is an action on the case to recover for personal injuries to the plaintiff alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of the defendant.
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On motion by defendant. This is an action on the case to recover for personal injuries to the plaintiff alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of the defendant. The plaintiff was a passenger on one of the defendant’s electric cars, on the eleventh day of October, 1906, going from Topsham Fair Grounds to Brunswick, and that during said passage, the car on which he was a passenger ran off the track, through the negligence of the defendant, and that he then and there received the injuries complained of. The case has been tried twice before, each trial resulting in a verdict for the…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, J.
Case for negligence. The plaintiff was a passenger on one of the defendant’s cars, and was injured in some way. The manner is not described in the case, for the defendant admitted at the trial that it was originally liable. The plaintiff sustained a compound, comminuted fracture of the bones of the right leg, near the anide. The accident occurred in Topsham, October n, 1906. The plaintiff was taken at first to the office of Dr. Palmer, in Brunswick, and from there to St. Mary’s hospital in Lewiston, Dr. Palmer accompanying him. On November 21, 1906, his leg was amputated below the knee, and…
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