Griffin v. Hustis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tokt for personal injuries received when a hired motor vehicle driven by one Bordo ran into a post at the side of the Mohawk Trail near Charlemont when it was turned from the highway to avoid a collision with a railroad train on a grade crossing.
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Tokt for personal injuries received when a hired motor vehicle driven by one Bordo ran into a post at the side of the Mohawk Trail near Charlemont when it was turned from the highway to avoid a collision with a railroad train on a grade crossing. Writ dated February, 1918. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Wait, J. The questions referred to in the sixth numbered paragraph of the opinion were as follows: Claude H. Tillotson, a chauffeur of fifteen years’ experience, was asked, “As a chauffeur, when you approach a grade crossing where your view is obscured, what do you usually do?…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The plaintiff was injured on Sunday morning, October 14, 1917, near a crossing at grade of the Boston and Maine Railroad over the highway known as the Mohawk Trail, in the town of Charlemont. He was one of a party of six who had engaged David Bordo, the owner of a seven passenger automobile, to take them from Pittsfield to Camp Devens and back for $30. They left Pittsfield at 4.30 A. M. At about six o’clock they were moving toward the crossing from the south, when a freight train approached from the east. Bordo, in order to avoid an imminent collision, turned his car off the road to the…
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