Binder v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

The plaintiff testified that, accompanied by her husband, on Christmas day, 1924, at about half past eleven in the evening, she went to the corner of Harvard Street and Commonwealth Avenue, in Boston, to take a Dudley Street car; that when the car came to a stop and the motorman opened the front door, she stepped upon the platform and before she had reached a seat the car started with a sudden jerk, causing her to fall and break her leg. She further testified that when she fell she was inside the door on the platform where the motorman was; that the door did not push her forward when it was…