O'Donnell v. Registrar of Motor Vehicles

This petition for a writ of mandamus was heard upon petition and answer. It comes here on the respondent’s exceptions to an order that the writ issue. The facts thus displayed are that the petitioner, a resident of Boston, while in the exercise of due care, was injured on March 25, 1928, by the negligence of one Harry E. Flaherty, a resident of this Commonwealth, in driving a motor vehicle on a public highway in Boston; that on March 6, 1929, she brought an action of tort in the Superior Court against said Flaherty, and the officer to whom the writ was given for service made return that he…