Grealish v. Odell

The plaintiff, a boy a little over fourteen, with another boy named Swanson, was traveling westerly on Hanover Street in Manchester at about half past five in the afternoon of January 19, 1934. Each boy had a sled, which he used for coasting whenever that was possible. The accident happened near the lower end of a downward slope. The plaintiff sometimes coasted in a lying position and sometimes kneeling on his sled. Generally he steered along the shoulder or gutter, a space two to four feet wide between the northerly line of the surfacing of the street and the northerly snowbank. Now and then…