Case Name: Sam Brooslin vs. Louis Cohn
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1930-01-08
Citations: 270 Mass. 38
Docket Number: 
Parties: Sam Brooslin vs. Louis Cohn.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 270
Pages: 38–39

Head Matter:
Sam Brooslin vs. Louis Cohn.
Hampden.
January 6, 1930.
January 8, 1930.
Present: Rugg, C.J., Crosby, Carroll, Sanderson, & Field, JJ.
H. A. Moran, for the plaintiff.
W. J. Granfield & J. M. Noonan, for the defendant.

Opinion:
Rugg, C.J.
This is an action of tort to recover compensation for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff, while riding in the motor vehicle of the defendant, through the negligence of the latter. A witness called by the defendant, in answer to a question whether he heard the plaintiff request the defendant to go slowly, said that he did not know whether it was said or not. The presiding judge asked the witness, in substance, "if he did not think he would remember if the plaintiff had said it. To this remark the plaintiff duly excepted, claiming that it was prejudicial." Apparently the question was not answered. Whether this be regarded as an unanswered inquiry or whether it be assumed that it was answered, no error is disclosed. The presiding judge had a right to put the question. Palmer v. White, 10 Cush. 321. Sherman v. Sherman, 193 Mass. 400. Benuliewicz v. Berger, 245 Mass. 137, 139.
Exceptions overruled.