Glassey v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.

These two cases were tried and have been argued together. At the close of the plaintiffs’ evidence in the Superior Court the presiding judge ruled at the defendant’s request that the plaintiffs could not recover and directed verdicts for the defendant. The cases are here on exceptions by the plaintiffs to these rulings.

The case of the plaintiff Rachel, who is a married woman, is for injuries alleged to have been received by her in consequence of the negligence of the defendant in leaving a large reel by the side of or in Cameron Street in Clinton, which some boys rolled down the street and…