Wilder v. General Motorcycle Sales Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort, the first for personal injuries sustained on August 8,1916, when the plaintiff, a girl about ten years of age, was alighting from a street railway car on North Main Street in Brockton and was knocked down by a motorcycle ridden by an employee of the defendant acting within the scope of his employment, and the second by the father of the plaintiff in the first case for consequential damages.
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Two actions of tort, the first for personal injuries sustained on August 8,1916, when the plaintiff, a girl about ten years of age, was alighting from a street railway car on North Main Street in Brockton and was knocked down by a motorcycle ridden by an employee of the defendant acting within the scope of his employment, and the second by the father of the plaintiff in the first case for consequential damages. Writs dated July 16, 1917. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Chase, J. “The defendant admitted liability and filed an answer to that effect, and the case…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
The first action is to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff by being struck and knocked down by a motorcycle operated by an employee of the defendant acting within the scope of his employment. The second action is for consequential damages. The defendant admitted liability and the case was tried on the question of damages only. The plaintiff in the first action will hereafter be referred to as the plaintiff.
There was evidence to show that the plaintiff’s injuries consisted of a compound fracture of the lower third of the tibia of the left leg, a fracture of the right collar…
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