Clark v. Blair
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by the administratrix of the estate of Francis Redmond. Clark for causing his death on August 23, 1912, when he was eleven years of age by running him down with an automobile on the Revere Beach Boulevard.
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Tort by the administratrix of the estate of Francis Redmond. Clark for causing his death on August 23, 1912, when he was eleven years of age by running him down with an automobile on the Revere Beach Boulevard. Writ dated September 14, 1912. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Sanderson J., who at the close of the evidence, which is described in the opinion, refused to rule that the plaintiff could not recover or to order a verdict for the defendant, and submitted the case to the jury. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $2,100; and the defendant alleged…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is an action of tort to recover damages for the death of a boy eleven years old which occurred on the Revere Beach Boulevard, from collision with an automobile run by the defendant. The deceased, with a group of other children twenty-five to thirty in number, were skipping and running across the boulevard. One Galiano, seeing the automobile coming toward the children, ran out to about the centre of the boulevard and tried to stop the boys; holding his left hand horizontally and his right hand upward, facing toward the automobile. Eight or ten of the children continued across the…
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