Stangy v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on February 13, 1911, when he was a passenger in a street railway car operated by the defendant on Boylston Street in Boston. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated March 22, 1911. On appeal to the Superior Court the case was tried before Law-ton, J. The plaintiff’s evidence is described in the opinion. The witness Carmichael was a police officer.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on February 13, 1911, when he was a passenger in a street railway car operated by the defendant on Boylston Street in Boston. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated March 22, 1911. On appeal to the Superior Court the case was tried before Law-ton, J. The plaintiff’s evidence is described in the opinion. The witness Carmichael was a police officer. The part of his testimony referred to in the opinion as ordered stricken out by the judge was as follows: He was asked the question, “Now where was the end of the team with…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The plaintiff, while a passenger in a trolley car" running on the surface of Boylston Street in Boston, was injured by glass from the car windows broken by a “ crash.” The material evidence as to the way in which the windows were broken was offered by the plaintiff, and tended to show that the car was a large one and that the third or fourth window from the front of the car and one or two windows behind that were broken. Immediately thereafter a coal team belonging to one Batchelder was seen standing on the street, the horses facing “in toward the curbstone and the rear half of the wagon…
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