Taylor v. Inhabitants of Sterling

These are four actions of tort to recover for personal injuries and property damage, alleged to have been sustained by reason of a defect in, or want of repair of, a highway in the defendant town. At the time of the accident, three of the plaintiffs were riding in a one-seated *125democrat wagon — William E. Watson and Olive J. Watson on the seat, and their daughter (the plaintiff Taylor) between them on a stool placed in front. The accident occurred on the Princeton Road, so called, in Sterling, at about four o’clock in the afternoon of October 19, 1917. As the plaintiff William E. Watson, who…