Shockett v. Akeson

These two actions of tort, tried together, are brought by the administrator of the estate of James T. Shockett to recover damages for the latter’s death and conscious suffering resulting from the collision, at an intersection of public ways in the town of Framingham, of an automobile operated by the intestate and a truck owned by the defendant Akeson and operated by the defendant McDevitt, who at the time was acting within the scope of *290his employment. There were two trials. The judge at the first trial denied a motion in each case for a directed verdict, subject to the defendants’ exceptions,…