Egan v. Metropolitan Transit Authority

This is an action to recover for an injury to the plaintiff’s eye caused by a fragment of glass from a broken window in a bus of the defendant in which she was a passenger. The accident occurred in the evening of November 24, 1952, on Washington Street in the Boxbury district of Boston. The plaintiff testified that she heard a thud on a window of the bus near where she was sitting; that the window was shattered; that a fine shower of glass came from the broken window; and that a piece of glass lodged in her eye. She contends that her injury was caused by the defendant’s use of glass in the…