Sullivan v. Hustis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tout under St. 1906, c. 463, Part II, § 245, with a declaration in two counts, the first for damages due to conscious suffering of Catherine Sullivan and the second for the causing of her death in a collision, due to a neglect to give the signals required by § 147 of the statute, at a grade crossing of a highway in North Wilmington with the Boston and Maine Railroad, the defendant being temporary receiver of the railroad corporation under a decree of the United States…
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Tout under St. 1906, c. 463, Part II, § 245, with a declaration in two counts, the first for damages due to conscious suffering of Catherine Sullivan and the second for the causing of her death in a collision, due to a neglect to give the signals required by § 147 of the statute, at a grade crossing of a highway in North Wilmington with the Boston and Maine Railroad, the defendant being temporary receiver of the railroad corporation under a decree of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Writ dated May 19, 1917. The defendant demurred, assigning as grounds of…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is an action of tort. The declaration sets forth in one count that the defendant is temporary receiver of the Boston and Maine Railroad, duly appointed by the United States District Court for the district of Massachusetts, and that personal injury and suffering came to the plaintiff’s intestate while a traveller on a highway in Wilmington, at a place where the tracks of the Boston and Maine Railroad cross the highway at grade, through collision with an engine or cars arising from the neglect to give the grade crossing signals required by St. 1906, c. 463, Part II, § 147. The other count…
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