Opinion

Garabedian v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.

  • 225 Mass. 65
Court
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Filed
Oct 10, 1916
Status
Published
Cited by
9 cases
Authority
More cited than 87.2%

The opinion

By the court.

The plaintiff’s intestate having been too young to take care of himself and the injury having been received before the passage of St. 1914, c. 553, the plaintiff can recover only by showing the due care of the custodian. Casey v. Smith, 152 Mass. 294 .

The record is barren of anything to indicate such care. The evidence is that the custodian, a brother twelve years old, went upon the tracks of the defendant with the deceased, without *66 looking, in front of an approaching car in plain sight only a short distance away. The case is governed by Mills v. Powers, 216 Mass. 36 , Kyle v. Boston Elevated Railway, 215 Mass. 260 , Walukewich v. Boston & Northern Street Railway, 215 Mass. 262 , Russo v. Charles S. Brown Co. 198 Mass. 473 , Murphy v. Boston Elevated Railway, 188 Mass. 8 , Holian v. Boston Elevated Railway, 194 Mass. 74 , O’Brien v. Boston Elevated Railway, 217 Mass. 130 , Godfrey v. Boston Elevated Railway, 215 Mass. 432 , Moran v. Boston Elevated Railway, 222 Mass. 438 .

Exceptions overruled.

This is a copy of a public record, reproduced as it was published. It is not legal advice, and it may not be the version a court would rely on. Check the official source before you cite it.

A word about cookies

We need a few to keep you signed in and the library working. The rest help us see which pages people use and where they get stuck. They stay off unless you say yes.