Stowe v. Mason

On September 10, 1932, between 11 p.m. and 12 midnight, the plaintiff was one of five passengers in an *579automobile owned and driven by the defendant Mason on Atlantic Avenue in Boston. The entire party, including Mason, consisted of three men and three women. They had just left the “Show Boat,” which appears to have been an establishment where dancing was enjoyed and drinks were served. Atlantic Avenue, a main thoroughfare in the business part of the city, runs north and south and is seventy-eight feet wide between curbstones. In Atlantic Avenue is a structure supported upon columns in the…