TOMPKINS v. PRATT


336 Mass. 672 (1958)

147 N.E.2d 536

ARNOLD A. TOMPKINS & another vs. CYRIL R. PRATT (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

January 22, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin Goldman, for the plaintiffs.

Holland W. Hazen, for the defendant.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., WILLIAMS, COUNIHAN, WHITTEMORE, & CUTTER, JJ.


WILLIAMS, J.

These are two actions of tort in each of which a minor guest passenger seeks to recover for personal injury and his father for consequential damage allegedly caused by the gross negligence of the defendant in the operation of his automobile on Main Street, Woburn, on July 5, 1947. There was evidence that Main Street was forty feet in width. Automobiles were parked on either side and a line of traffic, including the automobile operated by the defendant...

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