Legal Opinion
Woodman v. Haynes
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 5, 1935PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
This action of tort was brought in the District Court to recover compensation for bodily injuries to the plaintiff and damage to his automobile sustained when the automobile, operated by the plaintiff on the highway, was run into by a horse owned by the defendant and driven by his son. The declaration contains a count alleging that the son was not a proper person to have control of the horse. There was evidence at the trial that the horse was being driven, attached to a wagon, by the defendant’s twelve year old son, and that on hearing a locomotive whistle the horse got out of control, ran…
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3Cited by40 opinions
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