The plaintiff commenced this negligence action against Westwood and several other defendant. The plaintiff sustained serious injuries on March 11, 1982, when a van driven by Robert Allard struck him as he crossed Route 1A in Revere, outside the Wonderland Greyhound Park, an establishment owned and operated by the defendant, Westwood Group. Rouse, J., and a motion for a new trial was heard by her.Īfter review by the Appeals Court, the Supreme Judicial Court granted leave to obtain further appellate review. ĬIVIL ACTION commenced in the Superior Court Department on March 9, 1984. Party under agency principles, where the agent had been found not to be There was no basis for imputing vicarious liability for negligence to a Passage by means of a pedestrian bridge or the installation of traffic Officers to direct motor vehicle and pedestrian traffic did notĮncompass the undertaking of a broader duty to provide safe pedestrian The voluntary undertaking of an abutter to a State highway to hire police Municipal police details to direct motor vehicle and pedestrian trafficĪt a crosswalk over the highway, which was undisputedly controlled and Sides of the highway by reason of the racetrack's arranging for Traffic lights, on the part of a racetrack whose property was on both Highway, by the construction of a pedestrian bridge or installation of No duty of care arose to provide safe pedestrian passage over a State Or installing traffic lights, where the racetrack did not fail toĮxercise reasonable care in the use of its land nor was there anyĬondition on its land that created an unreasonable risk to users of the Pedestrians over the State highway by constructing a pedestrian bridge State highway did not give rise to a duty to provide safe passageway to The ownership and use by a racetrack of land on both sides of a divided Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, & GREANY, JJ.
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