Kinnarney v. Milford & Uxbridge Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort, the first action being for personal injuries received by reason of a fall of the plaintiff as she was alighting from a street car of the defendant in Framingham on June 13, 1915, and the second action being by the husband of the plaintiff in the first action for consequential damages.
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Two actions of tort, the first action being for personal injuries received by reason of a fall of the plaintiff as she was alighting from a street car of the defendant in Framingham on June 13, 1915, and the second action being by the husband of the plaintiff in the first action for consequential damages. Writs dated respectively April 10 and May 9, 1916. The cause of the female plaintiff’s injury alleged in the declaratian was a “failure on the part of said defendant corporation to properly equip said car with suitable steps by which to enter and leave said cars, and . . . failure of said…
1Opinion of the CourtJenney, J.
These are two actions of tort. In one, Jane Kinnarney, hereinafter called the plaintiff, sues for personal injuries received by her while alighting from a car of the defendant. Andrew J. Kinnarney, her husband, brings the second action to recover consequential damages caused by her injuries.
On June 13, 1915, the plaintiff, who was a passenger in an open car of the defendant, requested the conductor to stop at a crossing over a railroad track for the purpose of permitting her to alight, and the car came to a stop at the designated place. On direct examination, the plaintiff’s story of her…
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