Green v. Haverhill & Amesbury Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries from being run into by an electric car of the defendant between three and five o’clock in the afternoon of September 2, 1902, on a highway in the town of Salisbury leading from Smithtown in Seabrook, New Hampshire, to Salisbury and Newburyport, when the plaintiff, driving a horse in a democrat wagon, had emerged from a driveway leading from the premises of one Donnell and was crossing the track of the defendant.
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Tort, for personal injuries from being run into by an electric car of the defendant between three and five o’clock in the afternoon of September 2, 1902, on a highway in the town of Salisbury leading from Smithtown in Seabrook, New Hampshire, to Salisbury and Newburyport, when the plaintiff, driving a horse in a democrat wagon, had emerged from a driveway leading from the premises of one Donnell and was crossing the track of the defendant. Writ dated October 10, 1902. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Pierce, J. At the close of the evidence the defendant asked the judge to rule…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The plaintiff was injured by a collision with the defendant’s car. The highway at the place of the accident runs northwesterly and southeasterly. The defendant’s track is near the southwesterly side of the highway, and the plaintiff was driving through a private way that runs nearly at right angles to the road, from a house on the southwesterly side of the road. On the northwesterly side of the private way there is an orchard, and, separating the orchard from the highway is a wall, with a few shrubs and bushes growing along it. At the junction of the private way and the highway, on the…
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