Williamson v. Old Colony Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries from an electric car of the defendant running into a four horse furniture team which the plaintiff was driving in the daytime of April 22, 1903. Writ dated March 11, 1904. At the trial in the Superior Court before Harris, J. the defendant at the close of the evidence asked the judge to make among others the following rulings: “1. Upon all the evidence the plaintiff is not entitled to recover.
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Tort for personal injuries from an electric car of the defendant running into a four horse furniture team which the plaintiff was driving in the daytime of April 22, 1903. Writ dated March 11, 1904. At the trial in the Superior Court before Harris, J. the defendant at the close of the evidence asked the judge to make among others the following rulings: “1. Upon all the evidence the plaintiff is not entitled to recover. “2. There is no sufficient evidence that the plaintiff was in the exercise of due care, and he cannot recover. “ 3. There is no sufficient evidence of negligence on the part of…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This is an action to recover for personal injuries, resulting from collision between a barge, driven by the plaintiff, and a car of the defendant. The accident happened on Hancock Street in Quincy, at about half past eight o’clock in the morning of a clear day. Double tracks of the defendant’s railway occupied the centre of the street. The street was forty-four feet wide between the sidewalks, and was practically straight, with the view unobstructed for a distance of eighteen hundred feet in each direction from the place of the accident. The plaintiff was driving a four horse barge filled…
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- Kerr v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
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- Shattuck v. EldredgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
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