Lynch v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

The plaintiff was injured in a collision on December 11,1912, between an automobile ladder truck of the Boston Eire Department and a street railway car of the defendant at the junction of P Street and Third Street in South Boston. These streets cross each other at right angles. In P Street (which runs north and south and is about thirty feet wide) there is a double line of car tracks. The first rail of the northbound track is eight feet six inches from the easterly curbstone and ten feet eleven inches from the crosswalk of Third Street.

The ladder truck was about thirty-six feet long and…