Morrissey v. Connecticut Valley Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort against a street railway company for personal injuries and damage to the plaintiff’s motor car sustained on the evening of April 30, 1918, and alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant’s servants in the operation of an express car of the defendant on Union Street in the village of South Deer-field, in the town of Deerfield, which ran into the motor car of they plaintiff when the plaintiff was driving it across the defendant’s tracks on that street.
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Tort against a street railway company for personal injuries and damage to the plaintiff’s motor car sustained on the evening of April 30, 1918, and alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant’s servants in the operation of an express car of the defendant on Union Street in the village of South Deer-field, in the town of Deerfield, which ran into the motor car of they plaintiff when the plaintiff was driving it across the defendant’s tracks on that street. Writ dated May 7, 1918. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Aiken, C. J. At the close of the evidence the…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is an action of tort wherein the plaintiff seeks to recover damages sustained by him in person and property arising from a collision between an express car operated by the defendant upon its track and an automobile owned and operated by the plaintiff. The verdict was for the defendant and the case is here on the plaintiff’s exceptions.
The plaintiff’s requests for instructions were denied rightly. The eighth and ninth in substance required a ruling that the plaintiff was in the exercise of due care and that the defendant was negligent. These were both controverted issues, as to which…
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