Reardon v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

This is an action to recover property damages arising from a collision on a public way between a hack and *126horses belonging to the plaintiffs and a trolley car operated by the defendant upon its tracks. There was evidence tending to show that the trolley car ran into the hack as it was proceeding along its steady and undeviating course in front of the car. There was other evidence tending to show that the hack was driven suddenly from the left side of the street upon the tracks so near to the -front of the moving car that it was impossible for the motorman to avoid the collision. On this state…