Bullard v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Four actions of tort, the first three respectively by two guests and a daughter of Genevieve Curtis, the wife of Nelson Curtis, and the fourth by Nelson Curtis, as the administrator of his wife’s estate, the first three for personal injuries and the fourth for causing conscious suffering and death by alleged negligence of the defendant’s servants and agents in running a street railway car of the defendant against a limousine motor car belonging to Nelson Curtis, and driven…
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Four actions of tort, the first three respectively by two guests and a daughter of Genevieve Curtis, the wife of Nelson Curtis, and the fourth by Nelson Curtis, as the administrator of his wife’s estate, the first three for personal injuries and the fourth for causing conscious suffering and death by alleged negligence of the defendant’s servants and agents in running a street railway car of the defendant against a limousine motor car belonging to Nelson Curtis, and driven by his chauffeur, containing the four persons injured or killed. Writs dated April 15, 16, 1915. In the Superior Court…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
These are actions of tort to recover damages for personal injuries and a death resulting from a collision on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston between an automobile and a car of the defendant. The automobile was owned by Nelson Curtis. It was being driven by one Kaulback, a chauffeur in his employ. It was a limousine, and the glass partition separating the chauffeur from the people in the inside was up. The three first named plaintiffs and Mrs. Curtis, the wife of the owner of the car, were inside the automobile.
Negligence on the part of the chauffeur was not imputable to the first three…
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