Labrecque v. Donham
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, with a declaration in two counts, the first count for causing the death, and the second for causing conscious suffering of the plaintiff’s intestate, Henry Labrecque, resulting from a collision between a motor truck, on which he was riding as an employee, and a street car of the Bay State Street Railway Company, then being operated by the defendant.
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Tort, with a declaration in two counts, the first count for causing the death, and the second for causing conscious suffering of the plaintiff’s intestate, Henry Labrecque, resulting from a collision between a motor truck, on which he was riding as an employee, and a street car of the Bay State Street Railway Company, then being operated by the defendant. Writ dated November 26, 1918. In the Superior Court, the action was tried before Raymond, J. There was evidence that the plaintiff’s intestate had been drinking intoxicating liquors within three hours before the accident. Other material…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is an action to recover for the conscious
suffering and death of Henry Labrecque, who died as the result of injuries received on October 24, 1918. He was employed by one . Seymour who operated an automobile truck between Boston and Lowell.
In the morning of the day of the accident, Seymour drove the truck from Lowell to Boston, having with him as helpers the plaintiff’s intestate and one Swan; and on the return trip in the afternoon of the same day, an electric car of the Bay State Street Railway Company (at that time operated by the defendant as receiver) collided with the truck on a…
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