Griffin v. Taxi Service Co.

2 Citing cases

  1. Boston Elevated Ry. v. Greaney

    68 F.2d 657 (1st Cir. 1934)   Cited 3 times

    We prefer to rest our decision upon the authority of the numerous cases dealing with the question of the rights and duties of a pedestrian in relation to the various types of ambulatory vehicles. As early as 1914 the Massachusetts court in the case of Griffin v. Taxi Service Co., 217 Mass. 293, 104 N.E. 838, in dealing with a case involving a taxicab and a pedestrian, in a per curiam decision, said: "The evidence is irreconcilably conflicting, and from the record the defendant well might have expected a verdict in its favor.

  2. Booth v. Meagher

    113 N.E. 367 (Mass. 1916)   Cited 11 times

    Whether the principal defendant was negligent in not sooner seeing the plaintiff and in not so operating his automobile with reference to the concurrent right of the plaintiff and himself to travel upon the public way as to avoid a collision, was for the jury. Ayers v. Ratshesky, 213 Mass. 589, 592. Rasmussen v. Whipple, 211 Mass. 546. Gray v. Batchelder, 208 Mass. 441. Huggon v. Whipple Co. 214 Mass. 64. Griffin v. Taxi Service Co. 217 Mass. 293. Exceptions sustained.