Whitman v. Inhabitants of Groveland
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, on January 13, 1881, by the falling of a span of the iron bridge across the Merrimac River between Haverhill and Groveland.
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Tort for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, on January 13, 1881, by the falling of a span of the iron bridge across the Merrimac River between Haverhill and Groveland. Writ dated February 4, 1881. Trial in the Superior Court before Colburn, J.,’ who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows: The following notice, dated February 1, 1881, and signed by the plaintiff’s attorneys, was given by the plaintiff to the defendant : “ You are hereby notified that on the 13th day of January, a. D. 1881, at about two o’clock in the afternoon, I received and suffered bodily injury…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The notice required by the St. of 1877, c. 234, previous to the commencement of the action, was sufficient. This informed the defendant that the plaintiff had sustained injury through a defect in the iron bridge commonly known as Groveland Bridge, and that the cause of such injury was the breaking and falling of the second span thereof from the Grove-land bank of the river. This was ample notice to enable the defendant to investigate the question of its liability, so far as the cause of the injury was concerned. To compel the plaintiff to go further, and notify the defendant of the causes…
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