Foschia v. First National Stores, Inc.

Early in the morning of July 5, 1929, a servant operating a truck for the defendant had parked the truck, in violation of a traffic regulation of the city of Boston, opposite the defendant’s store on the left hand side of Neponset Avenue in Boston, at Tolman Street, headed south towards Quincy. The truck was a two and one half ton truck, about twenty-five feet long, with a van body. On the tailboard was a load of bread in cardboard cartons. From the normal driving position, the operator could see to the rear only by a mirror on the left side of the windshield. When he started to leave, it was…