Curran v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

This action of tort to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff when struck by the defendant’s truck is here on the plaintiffs exception to the allowance of the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict presented at the close of the plaintiffs evidence. The evidence most favorable to the plaintiff is summarized: At midday on August 22, 1969, the plaintiff, after looking in both directions along Broadway in South Boston without seeing any traffic approaching from either direction, started to cross Broadway from north to south between the white lines of a plainly marked…