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• Title: Wilson. v. Freeman
• Author : Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
• Release Date : January 28, 1930
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 58 KB

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RUGG, C. J. This is an action of tort by a pedestrian upon a public way to recover compensation for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of a servant of the defendant driving his motor truck. The accident occurred about six o'clock in the afternoon of a January day at or near a public square devoted to travel formed by the intersection of Beacon Street with Langley Road and their conjunction with Summer Street. Thus, apart from names, the square appeared to be a place to which five streets converged. At each of these five corners was a street light. The square was open and free from obstructions. The plaintiff was deaf. There was testimony tending to show that the plaintiff was walking along the sidewalk on Langley Road toward the square. When he reached the curb at the square he saw a traffic officer on duty standing 'very close to the crosswalk.' He stopped at this curb 'to see that the way was clear' and to watch the officer, who beckoned him 'to come.' He then proceeded to cross the street and had walked about eighty feet toward, and reached a point within about ten feet from, the further corner of Beacon Street and Langley Road 'when he was struck by the defendant's truck in the back and knocked down.' The plaintiff was not looking for vehicles in the square but was looking toward the officer for safety and 'straight ahead for the sidewalk.' The traffic officer, after beckoning the plaintiff to come across the street, seeing the truck of the defendant stopped on Langley Road southerly of Beacon Street, gave the defendant's driver direction to 'come ahead. The driver of the truck thereupon drove it to a point near the traffic officer, and made a left turn behind him to go on Beacon Street toward the place where the plaintiff was crossing. The traffic officer did not see the accident but heard a thud and groan and saw the plaintiff on the street within a foot or two of the place where he was struck. The servant of the defendant in charge of the truck testified that on signal from the traffic officer he started up and made a left turn around the traffic officer and had just started to continue on Beacon Street and was moving at a rate of about three miles an hour when he struck the plaintiff. It is plain that, from this narration of the evidence, a finding that the defendant's servant in charge of his truck was negligent was amply warranted. There was nothing to obstruct his view of the plaintiff and the slowness of his speed would have enabled him to stop quickly, if he had been careful of the safety of others. The signal of the traffic officer did not authorize him to make a turn so as to collide with the plaintiff.

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