Wilson v. Freeman

This is an action of tort by a pedestrian upon a public way to recover compensation for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of a servant of the defendant driving his motor truck. The accident occurred about six o’clock in the afternoon of a January day at or near a public square devoted to travel formed by the intersection of Beacon Street with Langley Road and their conjunction with Summer Street in that part of Newton known as Newton Center. Thus, apart from names, the square appeared to be a place to which five streets converged. At each of these five…