CANTY v. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD RAILROAD


337 Mass. 38 (1958)

147 N.E.2d 801

WILLIAM W. CANTY, administrator, vs. The NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk..

February 12, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Lawlor, for the plaintiff.

Noel W. Deering, for the defendant.

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


RONAN, J.

This is the plaintiff's exception taken to the direction of a verdict for the defendant on the plaintiff's opening in an action of tort to recover damages for the conscious suffering and death of the plaintiff's intestate who was struck by a train shortly before five o'clock on an afternoon in January, 1954, as he was crossing the tracks in front of the Norfolk Downs station in the city of Quincy. The opening by permission of the court included certain photographs...

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