O'Regan v. Cunard Steamship Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by the negligence of the defendant’s servants. Trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., who reported the case for the determination of this court, in substance as follows. The defendant is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Great Britain, and owns and operates a line of passenger and freight steamers between Liverpool, Queenstown, and Boston.
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Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by the negligence of the defendant’s servants. Trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., who reported the case for the determination of this court, in substance as follows. The defendant is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Great Britain, and owns and operates a line of passenger and freight steamers between Liverpool, Queenstown, and Boston. The plaintiff, a widow, prior to September 25, 1891, resided in Cork, Ireland. She had at that time three daughters, all living in or near Boston. On September 25, 1891,…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The plaintiff was sent for and the price for her passage was paid by one of her daughters, a resident of Boston. It does not distinctly appear by the report whether the daughter, in paying for the passage, acted for herself or as an agent for the plaintiff, but the case has been argued by the plaintiff’s counsel as if the plaintiff was the original contracting party acting through her daughter as her agent. It is a natural inference from the language of the report, that the daughter paid the money and made the contract in Boston as a principal, but for the benefit of her mother. Perhaps this…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Milliken v. PrattMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1878
- Fonseca v. Cunard Steamship Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
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- Barry v. Bay State Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Yone Suzuki v. Central Argentine Ry., Ltd.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1928
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