Belledeau v. Connecticut Co.

The essential facts which the jury might have found upon plaintiff’s evidence upon the issue of the liability of the defendant are few. The plaintiff boarded one of defendant’s large one-man trolley cars at Center and Church Streets, New Haven; another, woman got on the car just behind her and the plaintiff moved over so that she might get in the vestibule of the car. On moving over the plaintiff was directly behind the motorman, she leaned forward and placed her transfer on the fare box for the motorman; she had not had an opportunity to turn around and enter the body of the- car when it…