Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court October 21, 1893 (Wiswell v. Doyle)

Allen, J.

The plaintiff’s counsel, in the request for instructions which was refused, assumed that the child’s mother might be found to have been negligent; but his request was founded on the view that, although it was careless in the mother to allow her children to be upon the street unattended, still her negligence did not lead to the accident, as there was nothing in the conduct of the child