Dunklee v. McGloin

202 N.E.2d 830, 348 Mass. 776

• Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• Decided: December 2, 1964
• Status: Published

Opinion

Exceptions overruled. The minor plaintiff alleges injuries and his father seeks consequential damages in this action of tort. The son was the driver of a car which, while trying to make a U-turn across an unbroken double white line which divided opposing lines of traffic at the end of a traffic island, was struck by a car driven by the defendant. Exceptions are alleged (1) to the denial by the judge of the plaintiff's motion to expunge from the auditor’s report prior to a jury trial a finding of negligence on the part of the plaintiff “in trying to make a U-tum at the end of the traffic island across two solid white traffic lines with other traffic following him on the west bound lanes” when the defendant was entitled to presume he would not do so, and (2) to therefnsal of the judge to charge that no statute or regulation was violated by the pKSUBHn trying to make the U-turhl There~was=Eo^roñ™^éaa3iU tor's finding ot" negligence on ttuTpsfftTof the minor plaintiff had support in the subsidiary facts which he found. The judge’s charge adequately dealt with the law to be considered by the jury in their assessment of the case. See Squires v. Fraska, 301 Mass. 474, 476.