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WOODCOCK v. TRAILWAYS OF NEW ENGLAND, INC.

340 Mass. 36 (1959)

162 N.E.2d 658

MARY WOODCOCK vs. TRAILWAYS OF NEW ENGLAND, INC. (and two companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

December 9, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Berge C. Tashjian, for Trailways of New England, Inc.

Charles V. Ryan, Jr., (John J. O'Connell with him,) for the plaintiff Woodcock.

William H. Welch, for the plaintiff O'Brien, trustee.

Stanley B. Milton, for the defendant Hicks, (Richard G. Crotty, for the defendant L.F. Harris Co., with him).

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

CUTTER, J.

These three actions of tort, tried together, arise out of a collision in which an automobile driven by Hicks, and owned by L.F. Harris Co., drove into the rear of a bus of Trailways of New England, Inc. (Trailways), in Southboro at about 1:30 A.M. on March 12, 1954. In the first case, Mary Woodcock, a guest passenger in the automobile operated by Hicks, sought to recover from Trailways for personal injuries. The other two actions were by the trustee of...

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