Marcelli v. Checker Taxi Co.

This is an action of tort by which the plaintiff seeks to recover for property damage to his automobile alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant.

*192The latter pleaded a general denial and the contributory negligence of the plaintiff.

There was evidence tending to show that the plaintiff was operating his automobile in a northerly direction on the North Shore Boulevard in Revere in a line of traffic at a speed of about twenty five miles an hour and that his windshield wipers were operating; into three lanes by white intermittent lines; that the defendant’s disabled taxicab,…