Nugent v. Boston Consolidated Gas Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort, the first as amended being against the Boston Consolidated Gas Company as the sole defendant, and the second against the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston as the sole defendant, both being brought by the administratrix of the estate of Thomas A. Nugent, and the declarations in both being in two counts, the first count for conscious suffering and the second for the negligent causing of the death of the plaintiff’s intestate when a manhole of…
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Two actions of tort, the first as amended being against the Boston Consolidated Gas Company as the sole defendant, and the second against the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston as the sole defendant, both being brought by the administratrix of the estate of Thomas A. Nugent, and the declarations in both being in two counts, the first count for conscious suffering and the second for the negligent causing of the death of the plaintiff’s intestate when a manhole of the electric company was blown off at the corner of IÍ Street and Broadway, in that part of Boston called South Boston,…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The plaintiff’s intestate, a boy fourteen years of
age, whose due care is not questioned, while standing in the street was blown into the branches of a nearby tree by an explosion of illuminating gas, where he clung or hung for a few minutes, and then dropped to the ground, either lifeless, or unconscious, and was pronounced dead by the medical examiner upon his arrival. The declaration imeach action is in two counts, one for conscious *230suffering, and one for death under R. L. c. 171, § 2, as amended by St. 1907, c. 375, and, the jury having returned a verdict for the plaintiff on each count,…
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