Legal Opinion
Woods v. DeMont
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 5, 1948PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, J.
This is an action of tort by the administrator of Thomas J. Woods, Junior, for the latter’s death and conscious suffering resulting from an automobile accident in Boston on November 17, 1944. The judge under leave reserved ordered the entry of verdicts for the defendant on the two counts after the jury had returned verdicts for the plaintiff. The plaintiff’s exceptions bring the case here.
Dowd, a servant of the defendant and acting within the scope of his authority, was driving an oil truck on Mozart Street in the Jamaica Plain district on the day in question between five and five thirty…
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