Legal Opinion
Birch v. Strout
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 12, 1939PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.
The plaintiff, aged five years and eleven months, while crossing a public way in Quincy, at about eight o’clock on a pleasant evening in June, 1937, was struck by an automobile, operated by the defendant, and sustained personal injuries for which she recovered a verdict. The case is here on exceptions to the refusal of the judge to direct a verdict for the defendant, to his failure to give two requests for rulings, to the exclusion of evidence, and to portions of the instructions to the jury.
There was evidence that the defendant was proceeding at about twenty-five miles an hour, up grade, on…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Capano v. MelchionnoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Squires v. FraskaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
- Wynn v. SullivanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Crowley v. FisherMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1933
- Conrad v. MazmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Luz v. Stop & Shop, Inc. of PeabodyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1964
- Duff v. WebsterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
- Campbell v. AshlerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1946
- Nerses Tookmanian v. FanningMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
- Ferris v. TurnerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1947
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