Rice v. Lowell Buick Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Three actions of tort for personal injuries, and for damage to a motor car, sustained at about half past four o’clock in the afternoon of December 12, 1915, by being run into by a motor car driven by the defendant when the three plaintiffs were travel-ling in a motor car owned by the plaintiff in the first case and driven by the plaintiff in the third case.
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Three actions of tort for personal injuries, and for damage to a motor car, sustained at about half past four o’clock in the afternoon of December 12, 1915, by being run into by a motor car driven by the defendant when the three plaintiffs were travel-ling in a motor car owned by the plaintiff in the first case and driven by the plaintiff in the third case. Writs dated January 3, 1916. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Wait, J. The evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence the plaintiffs asked the judge to instruct the jury as follows: “1. If…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
These are three actions brought to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiffs by reason of a collision between the Ford automobile in which they were travelling and a Cadillac automobile owned by the defendant and driven by one Young. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant in each action. The cases are before us upon the plaintiffs’ exceptions to the refusal of the presiding judge to give their first and second requests and to certain portions of the charge.
The accident occurred upon a highway known as Great Road in the town of Bedford, and at a point about sixty-five…
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