Powers v. Old Colony Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two ACTIONS OF TORT, the first to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff therein (hereinafter called the plaintiff) by reason of alleged negligence on the part of the defendant, and the second by the husband of the plaintiff in the first case for consequential damages.
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Two ACTIONS OF TORT, the first to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff therein (hereinafter called the plaintiff) by reason of alleged negligence on the part of the defendant, and the second by the husband of the plaintiff in the first case for consequential damages. Writs in the Superior Court for the county of Plymouth dated April 20, 1906. The cases were tried together before White, J. The plaintiff fell over a stone in her path as she was passing through private land while in the act of changing from one car of the defendant to another, at Hingham, in the night time of…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
These are two actions of tort, one brought by a woman, to recover for a personal injury, and the other by her husband; to recover for the cost of medical attendance and for other expenses incurred by reason of the injury.
On the line of the defendant’s railway work was going on in the abolition of a grade crossing of the Old Colony Railroad Company, such that the running of the defendant’s cars was interrupted, and it became necessary for passengers to leave the cars, go around an obstruction on foot, and take other cars to continue their travel on the other side. The distance between the cars…
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