Chaplin v. Brookline Taxi Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for 'personal injuries sustained on Easter Sunday, April 23, 1916, by being knocked down by a motor car of the defendant driven negligently by a servant of the defendant on Beacon Street in Brookline near Jordan’s Steps. Writ dated June 2, 1916. The answer, besides a general denial, contained an allegation that, if the plaintiff received the injuries alleged, they were the result of her own negligence and of her failure to exercise due care.
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Tort for 'personal injuries sustained on Easter Sunday, April 23, 1916, by being knocked down by a motor car of the defendant driven negligently by a servant of the defendant on Beacon Street in Brookline near Jordan’s Steps. Writ dated June 2, 1916. The answer, besides a general denial, contained an allegation that, if the plaintiff received the injuries alleged, they were the result of her own negligence and of her failure to exercise due care. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Sisk, J. It was admitted at the trial that there was evidence of negligence on the part of the…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is an action to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff by reason of being struck by a motor car of the defendant, driven by its employee. It is conceded that there was evidence of the defendant’s negligence.
The circumstances attending the accident may be briefly stated: The plaintiff, who was walking ahead of her companion, reached the sidewalk on Beacon Street in Brookline at a point where the street was thirty feet in width. She testified that she stood on the edge of the sidewalk about five or ten seconds and looked in both directions; that she waited for two motor…
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