Grover v. Smead

These are actions for personal injury and damage to the plaintiff’s automobile arising out of a collision which occurred in Northampton on May 8, 1931. The defendants contend that the plaintiff’s automobile, which was admittedly a coupé, was not properly registered and was therefore a nuisance upon the highway. Dudley v. Northampton Street Railway, 202 Mass. 443.

As to this defence the burden of proof rested upon the defendants. Conroy v. Mather, 217 Mass. 91, 94. To sustain this burden the defendants introduced what purported to be a copy of the certificate of registration issued to the…