Keating v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions oe tort, the first by a minor for personal injuries sustained on January 31,1907, on Western Avenue in that part of Boston called Brighton, when the plaintiff was thrown from the high seat of a two-horse wagon in which he was driving by its being run into by an electric car of the defendant, and the second by the father of the plaintiff in the first case for the loss of his son’s services and for expenses incurred by reason of his injuries.
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Two actions oe tort, the first by a minor for personal injuries sustained on January 31,1907, on Western Avenue in that part of Boston called Brighton, when the plaintiff was thrown from the high seat of a two-horse wagon in which he was driving by its being run into by an electric car of the defendant, and the second by the father of the plaintiff in the first case for the loss of his son’s services and for expenses incurred by reason of his injuries. Writs dated March 30, 1907. Before the trial Richard W. Keating, the original plaintiff in the second case, died, and Bridget Keating, the…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
The plaintiff in the first case was driving a two-horse covered wagon along Western Avenue in Brighton, at about eight o’clock p. M. in the month of January, when the right rear wheel “ caught in a cradle hole or rut about two inches deep.” His right wheels were about three feet from the curb on the right side of the street and his left wheels were within three feet of the southerly rail of the inbound track of the defendant corporation. To the left of the inbound track there was an outbound track. The plaintiff found that he was too near the curbstone to pull out to the right, so he turned…
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