Chase v. Maine Central Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff’s testator, Jeremiah R. True, by a collision with a train of cars of the defendant.
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Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff’s testator, Jeremiah R. True, by a collision with a train of cars of the defendant. Trial in the Superior Court, before Graskill, J., who ruled that the plaintiff had offered no evidence which would authorize the jury in finding that his testate was in the exercise of such due care as is required by law to enable the plaintiff to recover; directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant ; and, at the plaintiff’s request, reported the case for the determination of this court. If the ruling and direction were right, judgment was to…
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
This is an action of tort, at common law, for injuries sustained by the plaintiff’s testate, by reason of the wagon in which he was driving coming into collision with a train of cars of the defendant, at a place in Richmond in the State of Maine, where a highway crossed the single track road *384of the defendant, at grade. The accident happened in the afternoon of August 17,1887, and the trial took place in the Superior Court in January, 1896. The presiding judge, at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, ruled that the plaintiff had offered no testimony which would authorize the jury in finding…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Tully v. Fitchburg RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
- Allyn v. Boston & Albany RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
- Debbins v. Old Colony RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
- Fletcher v. Fitchburg RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- Hubbard v. Boston & Albany RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
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- Lundergan v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- Schneider v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1898
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