Brough v. Towle
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for injuries from being struck by one of tlie teams of the defendants through the alleged negligence of the driver.
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Tort for injuries from being struck by one of tlie teams of the defendants through the alleged negligence of the driver. Writ dated December 20, 1901. At the trial in the Superior Court before Stevens, J, it appeared that the defendants were engaged in the business of general teaming and expressing, having an office in Boston proper and their stables on Miller Street in that part of Boston called Charlestown, and that the accident happened in the manner described in the opinion. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $1,500; and the defendants alleged exceptions, raising…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The only question argued by the defendants’ counsel on this bill of exceptions, is whether there was any evidence to warrant the jury in finding that, at the time of the injury to the plaintiff, the defendants’ driver was acting *591within the scope of his employment. He was a teamster, who had been sent that morning by one of the defendants to an oil store on Purchase Street in Boston, to take a load of oil to the Baltimore boat at Battery Wharf. At about eleven o’clock on the same day, he was seen driving through City Square in Charlestown, towards the defendants’ stables where the team was…
2Cited by1 opinion
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