Legal Opinion
Shaw v. Victoria Coach Line, Inc.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 29, 1943PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.
The plaintiff, a school teacher sixty-three years of age, was travelling on January 2, 1937, as a passenger on the front seat of an automobile bus on a trip from Boston to Hartford when the automobile skidded along a highway in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, and ran against an embankment, throwing the plaintiff forward and bringing her head in contact with the windshield with such force as to break the windshield; she was then precipitated to the floor of the automobile. She was so stunned by the accident that she did not apprehend her surroundings for a few seconds. She waited at Stafford…
2Cases cited42 opinions
- Grace v. AdamsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
- Bliss v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
- Rizzo v. CunninghamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Fonseca v. Cunard Steamship Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
- Rocci v. Massachusetts Accident Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Lee v. Allied Sports Associates, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
- Cohen v. SantoianniMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1953
- Hayes v. GessnerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
- Flavin v. MorrisseyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1951
- Kergald v. Armstrong Transfer Express Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1953
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