Legal Opinion

Will v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided January 3, 1924PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.

The evidence in its aspect most favorable to the plaintiff would have .warranted a finding that he was being carried as a guest in the rear seat of an automobile of a friend to take a trolley car of the defendant; that the driver of the automobile, passing the trolley car as passengers were alighting from it, went to a point as far to the right hand side of the street as he could get, just beyond the white post indicating the next regular trolley car stop, where he stopped the automobile; that the plaintiff opened the door on the left side of the automobile and, as he was getting out without…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Sullivan v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
  2. Pigeon v. Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1918
  3. Sullivan v. ChadwickMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
  4. Gibb v. HardwickMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
  5. Dube v. Keogh Storage Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Harlow v. LeclairSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1927
  2. Kanopka v. KanopkaSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1931
  3. Williams v. Pittsfield Lime & Stone Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1927
  4. Fortune v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1930
  5. McGuiggan v. AtkinsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932

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