Sampson v. Metropolitan Transit Authority

Exceptions overruled. The plaintiff, a passenger who was hurt alighting from a bus of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, brings this action of tort. The defendant was substituted as party defendant. St. 1947, c. 544, § 20. *758The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff following the denial of the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict. There was no error. There was evidence that the bus had stopped close to the curbstone in response to the plaintiff’s ringing the signal bell; that the operator opened the doors for her to leave; and that while both her feet were on the lower step and just…