Inangelo v. Petterson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries alleged to have been caused on March 14,1919, by a motor car operated by the defendant running into the plaintiff on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester. Writ dated April 18, 1919. In the Superior Court the action was tried before Sanderson, J. The material evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence, the defendant moved that a verdict be ordered for him. The motion was denied.
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Tort for personal injuries alleged to have been caused on March 14,1919, by a motor car operated by the defendant running into the plaintiff on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester. Writ dated April 18, 1919. In the Superior Court the action was tried before Sanderson, J. The material evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence, the defendant moved that a verdict be ordered for him. The motion was denied. The jury found for the plaintiff in the sum of $500; and the defendant alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
The plaintiff, a girl about eleven years of age, while crossing a street at a place where a walk had been constructed for pedestrians, was struck and injured by an automobile operated by the defendant. The accident occurred about noon. There was *440evidence that the street was twenty-five feet wide; that the plaintiff looked in both directions and waited for automobiles to pass, and then started across; that she had reached the opposite side and had her right foot, on the curbstone when she was struck by the automobile; that she did not see it until after she was struck; and that the automobile…
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