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Jette v. Longpre
297 Mass. 264
Mass.
1937
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Lummus, J.

After a verdict for the plaintiff in this action for negligently causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, the judge under reserved leave (G. L. [Ter. Ed.] c. 231, § 120) entered a verdict for the defendant. The case comes here on the plaintiff’s exception to that action.

The jury could have found from the evidence the following facts. In the early afternoon of May 7, 1933, the plaintiff’s intestate, a boy nearly three years old, was standing still on the curbstone or in the gutter on the easterly side of Pine Street in Attleboro, in front of the house in which he lived, waiting for his brother of nine years to cross the street to get him. An automobile driven by the defendant in a northerly direction on the easterly side of the street approached the boy, who was in plain sight, slowed down, then put on speed, turned into the gutter, *265struck the boy, inflicting fatal injuries, went on for at least one hundred thirty feet, and stopped. These facts warranted the conclusions that the defendant was negligent and that no negligence of any custodian of the boy contributed to the injury.

Exceptions sustained.

Judgment for the plaintiff on the verdict returned by the jury.

Case Details

Case Name: Jette v. Longpre
Court Name: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Date Published: May 24, 1937
Citation: 297 Mass. 264
Court Abbreviation: Mass.
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