Gagnon v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on November 28, 1916, on Main Street in Worcester by reason of a collision between an electric street railway car of the defendant and a motor car which the plaintiff was driving as a licensed chauffeur. Writ dated April 25, 1917. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Sisk, J. The evidence is described in the opinion.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on November 28, 1916, on Main Street in Worcester by reason of a collision between an electric street railway car of the defendant and a motor car which the plaintiff was driving as a licensed chauffeur. Writ dated April 25, 1917. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Sisk, J. The evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence the defendant made a motion that the judge should order a verdict for it. The judge denied the motion and submitted the case vto the jury, who returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The plaintiff was injured in a collision between an automobile which he was driving and an electric car of the defendant; and a verdict has been rendered in his favor. The only exception taken at the trial is one to the refusal of the presiding judge to direct a verdict for the defendant.
The accident happened on Main Street in Worcester, where there were double street railway tracks. The plaintiff had backed his automobile from a garage on the easterly line of Main Street across the sidewalk and into the street, and was in the act of turning the machine to go forward in a northerly direction…
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