Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1903

Felch v. Inhabitants of West Brookfield

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 21, 1903 · Barker

184 Mass. 309; 68 N.E. 227; 1903 Mass. LEXIS 1000

Cases that cite this one

4 later published cases cite this decision.

Trum v. Town of Paxton (Mass. 1952)
Eagan v. City of Buffalo (New York Supreme Court 1918)
Baxter v. Boston & Maine Railroad (Mass. 1914)
Lynch v. City of Boston (Mass. 1904)

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Opinion of the Court

Barker, J.

It being plain that the plank bridge off one end of which the plaintiff’s wheel fell, causing the injury, was not a part of the travelled path but outside of it, and constructed solely *310for the purpose of facilitating access between the travelled path and a private way which opened into the highway on one side, and from which the plaintiff was driving, the case is governed by that of Kellogg v. Northampton, 4 Gray, 65, 69. See also Howard v. North Bridgewater, 16 Pick. 189; Shepardson v. Colerain, 13 Met. 55; Smith v. Wendell, 7 Cush. 498 ; Harwood v. Oakham, 152 Mass. 421; Carey v. Hubbardston, 172 Mass. 106 ; Kelley v. Boston, 180 Mass. 233.

Hxceptions overruled.

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