Donovan v. Mutrie

Each of these cases is an action for death and conscious suffering of the plaintiff’s intestate, Salvatore Arcadipani, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant Patrick Mutrie, in the operation of a motor truck owned by his son, Francis P. Mutrie, the defendant in the other case. Agency of the driver was admitted. In each case a verdict was returned for the plaintiff.

The decedent, a man about seventy years of age,' was killed while crossing Commercial Street, in Boston, near its intersection with Battery Street, by a truck driven on Commercial Street in a southerly…