Martin v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

This is an action of tort for personal injuries, in which the judge directed a verdict for the defendant, and reported the case with a stipulation that if his ruling was correct, judgment was to be entered for the defendant on the verdict; if erroneous, judgment was to be entered for the plaintiff in a stipulated sum.

The plaintiff’s accident occurred on the platform of the defendant’s subway station at Harvard Square, where she had changed from a subway train to take a car for Arlington Heights. There was evidence that a large crowd of people was on the platform. In the first part of her…