Zarrillo v. Murphy

This action is for the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, a sixteen-year old boy, as the result of being struck by an automobile driven -by the defendant on Boston Street in Boston on the afternoon of June 2, 1938. The plaintiff excepts to the direction of a verdict for the defendant.

Certain facts are not in dispute. The accident happened at or near the easterly end of a bridge. A solid girder approximately four feet in height divided the bridge into two roadways used respectively by vehicles going in opposite directions. This girder, to the extent of its height, obscured the view from one…