Wrinn v. Jones
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for injuries alleged to have been caused to the plaintiff by the defendant, through his servant, negligently driving against the plaintiff’s team.
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Tort for injuries alleged to have been caused to the plaintiff by the defendant, through his servant, negligently driving against the plaintiff’s team. The plaintiff testified “ that he was coming from Chelsea to Charlestown over Chelsea Bridge, between ten and eleven o’clock in the morning, and was driving his horse harnessed to a light express wagon at an ordinary trot, on the right hand side of the bridge coming to Charlestown, when the defendant’s team and the plaintiff’s collided, the plaintiff’s left forward wheel and the defendant’s left hind wheel striking each other; that the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The whole question of fact was rightly submitted to the jury under instructions sufficiently favorable to the defendant, and which were all that the facts of the case required.
Exceptions overruled.
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