Walker v. Bullard

This is an action to recover for the death of the plaintiff’s intestate as the result of being run over by an automobile driven by the defendant in a yard in the rear of the defendant’s house on May 13, 1940.

The deceased, a boy twenty-six months of age, was the son of the plaintiff and the grandson of the defendant. *289Because of a previous death in the plaintiff’s family, the defendant’s wife, grandmother of the deceased, had taken him to the defendant’s farm in West Medway to care for him until after the funeral. In the rear of the defendant’s house was a large open yard around which wete…