Kromhout v. Commonwealth

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• noting that “where substantial identity in the circumstances appears, and the danger of unfairness, confusion or undue expenditure of time in the trial of collateral issues seems small, the admission of such [prior-accident] evidence has resided in the judge’s sound discretion”
• G. L. c. 81, § 18, limiting Commonwealth’s liability for injuries caused by highway design defects
• Supreme Judicial Court assumes that allegations of negligent design, construction and maintenance of roads state claims of “defects” . . .
• a wrongful death action against the Commonwealth for its alleged negligent design of a State highway was not governed by a statute that only applied to personal injury actions
• wrongful death action against the State arising out of a car accident caused by á defect in a state highway; “ ‘ordinarily the Legislature does not intend that the word “injury” should include death.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).