MAYER v. ROCKETT


362 Mass. 22 (1972)

283 N.E.2d 836

PHYLLIS B. MAYER, executrix, vs. FREDERICK E. ROCKETT (and seven companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

June 2, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Z. Doherty (David S. Miller & A. Joseph Ross with him) for Frederick E. Rockett & another.

Thomas E. Connolly (Arthur L. Johns with him) for Phyllis B. Mayer, executrix.

Thomas E. Cargill, Jr., for Margaret E. Trudelle, administratrix.

Christopher H. Worthington, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth, & Andrew B. Goodspeed, for Maurice W. Starkey, were present but did not argue.

Present: CUTTER, SPIEGEL, REARDON, QUIRICO, & BRAUCHER, JJ.


REARDON, J.

In these actions of tort for conscious suffering and wrongful death and property damage, the defendants Frederick E. Rockett and Rita P. Fiore have excepted to the denial of their motions for directed verdicts, and in addition allege error in the admission of certain evidence to which exception was taken. The pertinent facts are these. Acting under instruction of his employer, the defendant Rita Fiore, the defendant Rockett stopped a school bus he was...

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