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- Title: Mcgrimley v. Jameson
- Author : Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
- Release Date : January 25, 1937
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 51 KB
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QUA, Justice. The defendant excepts to the denial of his motion that a verdict be directed in his favor. The only count now material alleges that the defendant, his agents or servants, negligently ran a motor truck into and upon the plaintiff, causing personal injury. The evidence upon which the plaintiff must rely was in substance this: South Street in the Roslindale section of Boston was a one-way street upon which traffic proceeded in a westerly direction. It was from thirty-five to thirty-six feet wide between curbs, with a single-track trolley line in the center. The distance from the southerly car rail to the southerly curbstone was at least fourteen feet. On March 7, 1932, the plaintiff, then about nine years old, alighted in the rain from the front end of a street car which was proceeding westerly on this track and which had stopped with its rear end at a regular stopping pole near the plaintiff's school. The car was forth or more feet long. The plaintiff turned to his left and walked around the forward end of the car. At that moment the defendant's truck, also proceeding westerly, passed on the left or southerly side of the car. The plaintiff stopped when he saw the cob of the truck go by. He 'did not have time to do anything' before he was hit by the corner of the body of the truck, which projected sidewise beyond the cab. The truck 'kept going about twenty feet beyond the electric car before it came to a stop.' When the plaintiff was hit he staggered four or five feet, in what direction did not appear, and fell near the rear wheels of the truck.