(DOWNLOAD) "Rogers v. Cambridge Taxi Co. (Two Cases)" by Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Rogers v. Cambridge Taxi Co. (Two Cases)
- Author : Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
- Release Date : January 01, 1945
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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QUA, Justice. The first action is for personal injury. The second action is by the husband of the plaintiff in the first action to recover consequential damages. The trial Judge directed verdicts for the defendant. The accident occurred on August 1, 1942, shortly after midnight. The plaintiff in the first action, hereinafter called the plaintiff, and her husband, together with a man named Tucker and his wife, were entering a taxicab operated by an agent of the defendant at Central Square in Cambridge. The plaintiff testified to this effect: The party of four approached the cab from its left side. The 'dim-out' was in force. There were no lights there, and the inside of the cab was dark. There was no light in it. The plaintiff entered first, walked 'as far as she could to the right, judging the seat by where the window was, and sat down.' When she sat down she felt something very sharp, piercing, and painful at the base of her spine and heard a clicking noise. She had sat upon an ash tray on an arm rest. The ash tray had a cover about an inch wide and four inches long with 'a square knob about one and one half inches to an inch in diameter.' She had sat 'on one of the corners of the knob.' It felt as though the ash tray was open and had closed. The plaintiff knew that some automobiles had arm rests and had seen ash trays located on them. Her object was to get as far over on the right side of the taxicab as she could. She did not expect there would be an arm rest or an ash tray and made no allowance for any. It was agreed that when the cab was taken out that night there was no light in it.