O'Loughlin v. Bay State Street Railway Co.

The plaintiff asserts that she was injured at a point on East Merrimack Street in Lowell, about twenty-five feet westerly from a spur track of the Boston and Maine Railroad which crosses the highway at grade, while attempting to board an open car belonging to the defendant, by reason of the car starting forward with an unusual jerk while she had “one foot on the running board and was about to place the other on the floor of the car.” Her evidence tended to show that she gave a signal to the conductor to stop, while she was standing at a regular stopping place, that the conductor gave the…