WEIR v. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD RAILROAD


340 Mass. 66 (1959)

162 N.E.2d 793

WILLIAM WEIR, executor, vs. THE NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD COMPANY (and three companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

December 11, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Noel W. Deering, for the defendant.

Thomas S. Carey, (Henry T. George with him,) for the plaintiffs.

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


RONAN, J.

These are four actions of tort, the first one to recover for the death and conscious suffering of the owner and operator of an automobile and for damage to the automobile, and the remaining three to recover for the deaths and conscious suffering of the other occupants of the automobile, all resulting from a collision with a train of the defendant at a public crossing in North Grosvenordale, Connecticut.

The cases were first heard by an auditor whose...

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