Huffam v. Paquin

This is an action to recover damages for the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, a girl seven years and seven months old, who was run over and killed by a motor truck owned by the defendant and operated by his agent in the conduct of the defendant’s business. The truck was about fifteen feet long and seven and one half feet wide. It weighed about three tons, and, at the time of the accident, was loaded with nine cows. The accident occurred on Centre Street, in Boston, a public highway extending in a northerly and southerly direction, at a point nearly opposite Starr Lane, which runs into…