Shepard v. Jacobs
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for injuries to the plaintiff’s automobile resulting from a collision with the defendants’ automobile in Lowell, on the morning of September 7, 1908. Writ dated September 8, 1908. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Grashill, J., without a jury.
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Tort for injuries to the plaintiff’s automobile resulting from a collision with the defendants’ automobile in Lowell, on the morning of September 7, 1908. Writ dated September 8, 1908. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Grashill, J., without a jury. It appeared that on the day of the accident there were automobile races over the course in Lowell which were attended by a large concourse of people, and that the plaintiff, accompanied by his wife, a lady guest and a servant, was driving his automobile from his house in Lowell up Varnum Avenue toward the race-course where he had…
1Opinion of the CourtKhowltoh, C. J.
This is an action for damages resulting from a collision between an automobile of the plaintiff and one owned by the defendants. The defendants let their automobile, with one Lodge, a licensed chauffeur, in charge of it, to the Fiat Automobile Company, to be used by one Hollander, a representative of that company, in and around Lowell at the time of the automobile races there in September, 1908. The defendants were to receive $50 for the use of the car, with the driver, for two days. Hollander gave orders to the driver as to when and where the car should be driven, as one would order the…
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