Bigwood v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Four actions of tort, three for personal injuries, and the other by one of these plaintiffs for consequential damages arising from injuries to his wife, another of the plaintiffs, all of the injuries having been sustained by reason of an explosion at or near the junction of Main Street and Wyoming Avenue in the city of Melrose on the evening of September 21, 1904, which wrecked a car of the defendant in which the plaintiffs were passengers.
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Four actions of tort, three for personal injuries, and the other by one of these plaintiffs for consequential damages arising from injuries to his wife, another of the plaintiffs, all of the injuries having been sustained by reason of an explosion at or near the junction of Main Street and Wyoming Avenue in the city of Melrose on the evening of September 21, 1904, which wrecked a car of the defendant in which the plaintiffs were passengers. Writs dated November 26, 1904. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before jBrown, J. At the close of the evidence, which is described in…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
These are actions brought to recover damages for injuries received by passengers of the defendant. The car in which they were travelling came to a place on Main Street in Melrose on a slightly descending grade at about seven minutes before eight o’clock on the evening of September 21,1904, when an explosion of terrific violence occurred, which completely wrecked the forward part of the car, granulated the stone pavement of the street, blew away a portion of one rail of the defendant’s track and killed and injured many people. The evidence as to the operation of the car immediately before was…
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