Brember v. Jones
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for injuries to the plaintiff’s person and carriage. Facts found by the court. September 13, 1889, the plaintiff was riding in a top four-wheeled buggy, and the defendant in an open express wagon, upon Elm street in Manchester. At a point about midway between Prospect and Harrison streets their carriages collided. The plaintiff’s carriage and harness were broken, and his person slightly injured. At the place of collision the carriageway is sixty-eight feet wide.
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Case, for injuries to the plaintiff’s person and carriage. Facts found by the court. September 13, 1889, the plaintiff was riding in a top four-wheeled buggy, and the defendant in an open express wagon, upon Elm street in Manchester. At a point about midway between Prospect and Harrison streets their carriages collided. The plaintiff’s carriage and harness were broken, and his person slightly injured. At the place of collision the carriageway is sixty-eight feet wide. The surface of the road-bed is level, and is paved with granite blocks. A double-track street railway occupies the centre of…
1Opinion of the CourtClabk, J.
The statute establishing the law of the road goes no further than to prescribe the duties and regulate the rights of travellers “ in meeting and passing each other with carriages and vehicles, and leaves their rights and liabilities in all other particulars unaltered, and to be regulated and determined by the principles of the common law. Ordinarily, if one traveller in meeting another be found upon the half of the way appointed to him by the statute, travelling with ordinary care and prudence, and ho sustain an injury by a collision with the vehicle of another who is upon that part of the…
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