Webster v. Bracci
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
1Opinion of the Court
Exceptions overruled. In an action of tort for negligence arising from a head-on collision of the plaintiff’s and the corporate defendant’s motor vehicles during a heavy, whirling snowstorm when only twelve feet of the roadway was available for travel and visibility was extremely poor, the judge allowed, subject to the plaintiff’s exception, the defendants’ motion for a new trial which recited that the verdicts for the plaintiff were against the evidence, the weight of the evidence, and the law. The judge’s indorsement granting the motion “[f]or the reasons set forth in the defendants’…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Hartmann v. Boston Herald-Traveler Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1948
- Anti v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
- Carver-Beaver Yarn Co. v. WolfsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1924
3Cited by1 opinion
- Grenier v. City of New BedfordMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1976