Neafsey v. Szemeta
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received when the plaintiff, while crossing North Main Street in Brockton, was run into by a motor car alleged to have been driven negligently by the defendant. Writ dated August 6,1918. In the Superior Court the action was tried before McLaughlin, J. The material evidence, and a ruling asked for by the defendant and refused by the judge, are described in the opinion.
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Tort for personal injuries received when the plaintiff, while crossing North Main Street in Brockton, was run into by a motor car alleged to have been driven negligently by the defendant. Writ dated August 6,1918. In the Superior Court the action was tried before McLaughlin, J. The material evidence, and a ruling asked for by the defendant and refused by the judge, are described in the opinion. The jury found for the plaintiff in the sum of $750; and the defendant alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtJenney, J.
The plaintiff, while crossing North Main Street in Brockton, was injured by an automobile operated by the defend*161ant. The accident happened in the forenoon and there was evidence that it was then raining. The street at or near the place of the accident was free from other vehicles. The plaintiff testified that she saw the automobile just before she stepped from the sidewalk, when it was about two hundred and eighty feet north of the place where it hit her and that she did not see it again until it was “right on her.” When she was about halfway across the street, she was hit by the automobile,…
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