Nichols v. Lynn & Boston Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries, occasioned to the plaintiff while a passenger in Lynn, on a street car belonging to the defendant. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Hammond, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, the nature of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The plaintiff was entitled to go to the jury upon the question of the defendant’s negligence. The facts in detail were not much in dispute. There was evidence, which the jury might have believed, tending to show that the car in which she was riding was not over fourteen feet long on the inside, and that there were upon it about fifty passengers, several of whom were standing upon the rear platform. At Breed Street there was a regular stopping place, where the car always stopped, and there was no need to ring the bell for it to stop there, and the conductor did not ring the bell on this…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Dodge v. Boston & Bangor Steamship Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- Simmons v. New Bedford, Vineyard & Nantucket Steamboat Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- North Chicago Street Railroad v. CookIllinois Supreme Court · 1893
- Anderson v. Citizens' Street RailroadIndiana Court of Appeals · 1894
3Cited by14 opinions
- Kuhlen v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Glennen v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Holton v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Pitcher v. Old Colony Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Rich v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
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