Seele v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Three actions of tort, the first by the driver of an undertaker’s wagon, the servant of Ansel B. Pierce and Winfield P. Pierce, copartners doing business as undertakers, the second by one of the partners who was sitting by the driver in the wagon, and the third by both partners as owners of the wagon and the horses, for injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of th¿ defendant’s servants in running an electric car at an excessive rate of speed against the wagon…
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Three actions of tort, the first by the driver of an undertaker’s wagon, the servant of Ansel B. Pierce and Winfield P. Pierce, copartners doing business as undertakers, the second by one of the partners who was sitting by the driver in the wagon, and the third by both partners as owners of the wagon and the horses, for injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of th¿ defendant’s servants in running an electric car at an excessive rate of speed against the wagon as it was crossing the defendant’s tracks on Main Street in Melrose for the purpose of turning into Sylvan Street in…
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
In the first two actions the plaintiffs sue for damages for personal injuries. The third action is for damages *249to the horses and wagon with which the plaintiffs in the first two actions were travelling on the highway when the accident happened. They were on Main Street coming from Melrose on the west side of the road which was the right hand side as they were driving, and the centre of the road was occupied hy double tracks of the defendant’s railway. They were in a two horse undertaker’s wagon, preceding a funeral procession which was a considerable distance in the rear. The wagon was…
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