Masters v. Public Service Co.

Upon the issue of the plaintiff's contributory fault, while she was seventy-three years of age, she was in fair health and did cleaning work in business buildings. She is chargeable with average intelligence. Her mental and physical faculties were unimpaired except under the normal expectancy of her age. She had many times taken the car at its first stop on Manchester Street on her way home after the work of the day.

On the occasion when she was hurt the car passed her while she was on Elm Street about fifty-two feet from the corner of Elm and Manchester Streets. It had come to its stop as she…