Booth v. Meagher
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, under E. L. c. 159, § 3, cl. 7, as amended by St. 1910, c. 531, § 2, filed in the Superior Court on October 10,1912, against Sylvester W. Meagher, hereinafter called the principal defendant, and the Independent Die Company, a corporation, in which the plaintiff set forth a claim in tort for damages for personal injuries received in Brockton on March 19, 1911, under the circumstances described in the opinion, also alleged that the principal defendant owned…
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Bill in equity, under E. L. c. 159, § 3, cl. 7, as amended by St. 1910, c. 531, § 2, filed in the Superior Court on October 10,1912, against Sylvester W. Meagher, hereinafter called the principal defendant, and the Independent Die Company, a corporation, in which the plaintiff set forth a claim in tort for damages for personal injuries received in Brockton on March 19, 1911, under the circumstances described in the opinion, also alleged that the principal defendant owned shares of the capital stock of the defendant corporation and that the corporation had in its possession money belonging to…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The plaintiff seeks to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her while a pedestrian on a public way, through collision with an automobile operated by the principal defendant. The accident happened on a misty, rainy Sunday evening in March. The plaintiff, who was about sixty-one years old and a little deaf, was walking from her home to church. The evidence was conflicting. If that of the defendant be true, to the effect that the plaintiff stepped from the curb of the sidewalk on his right directly in front of the automobile, which, going at a moderate speed, was brought to a stop…
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