LITCHFIELD v. McCARTHY


343 Mass. 713 (1962)

180 N.E.2d 455

CATHERINE M. LITCHFIELD & another vs. MARGARET C. McCARTHY & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

March 1, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Cornell, for the defendants, submitted a brief.

David H. Fulton, for the plaintiffs.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, & KIRK, JJ.


KIRK, J.

The injured plaintiff and her husband were awarded compensation for personal injuries and consequential damages respectively against the defendant operator and his wife, the owner of the motor vehicle involved. On September 18, 1956, the defendant operator while backing the motor vehicle on a public way negligently struck the right buttock of the female plaintiff, a pedestrian, causing her to fall so that one or both of her knees struck the ground.

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