Catanese v. MacEntee

The plaintiff was injured in the afternoon of November 18, 1948, while walking across Calnan, formerly Inman, Square in Cambridge, by collision with a truck owned by the city of Cambridge and operated by the defendant, its employee. In an action of tort for damages the plaintiff obtained a verdict. Exceptions were taken by the defendant to the denial of his motion for a directed verdict; to the refusal of the judge to rule as requested that “A pedestrian, crossing a city square in daylight, is guilty of contributory negligence in walking into the side of a moving motor vehicle”; and to that…