Legal Opinion

Wilson v. Birkenbush

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided February 1, 1940PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Cox, J.,

The defendant appealed from the order of the Appellate Division for the Northern District dismissing the report of the trial judge, who found for the plaintiff. The only question for decision is whether the judge was in error, in the circumstances disclosed, in denying the defendant’s request that, “If the court finds that the plaintiff in the *174exercise of common prudence ought to have given warning to her husband of carelessness on his part which she observed or ought to have observed in the exercise of due care for her own safety and that she failed to do so, she would not be…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Bresnick v. HeathMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
  2. Povey v. Colonial Beacon Oil Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
  3. Lambert v. Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
  4. Russell v. FoleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
  5. Commonwealth v. HullMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937

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3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Perry v. HanoverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
  2. Liberatore v. Town of FraminghamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
  3. Deutsch v. OrmsbyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1968
  4. London Clothes, Ltd. v. Maryland Casualty Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1945
  5. Wood v. SpedoniMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1952

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