Lucier v. Norcross

On December 15, 1938, at about ten o’clock in the evening, the plaintiff’s intestate, Henry Lucier, while on a public highway in Charlton, was struck and killed by an automobile driven by the defendant. The issues are whether there was any evidence of the defendant’s negligence, whether as matter of law the deceased was guilty of contributory negligence, and whether there was error in admitting certain evidence.

We deal first with the evidence point. The plaintiff called as a witness an investigator for the registrar of motor vehicles. On direct examination the witness testified that he had an…