Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1904

Yeomans v. Heath

Yeomans v. Heath
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided February 26, 1904 · Knowlton
185 Mass. 189; 70 N.E. 1114; 1904 Mass. LEXIS 780

Yeomans v. Heath

Opinion of the Court

Knowlton, C. J.

The case as stated in the agreed statement of facts and in the plaintiffs’ declaration is within the St. 1890, c. 437, but is not within the law as amended by St. 1901, c. 459. This amendment deprived the plaintiffs of the right of recovery which they previously had. The case is covered by the decision in Wilson v. Head, 184 Mass. 515.

*190Assuming, as we must for the purpose of this decision, that the agreed statement of facts correctly presents the case, the entry should be,

Judgment for the defendants.

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