Guay v. Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co.

This is an action of tort to recover compensation for personal injuries received by reason of a collision between an automobile driven by the plaintiff and a trolley car of the defendant. There was evidence tending to show that the plaintiff, about seven o’clock on an April morning, was driving on a public way in which there were tracks of the defendant and in which the travellers were governed by traffic lights; that he passed an electric car of the defendant stationary at a street corner, the traffic light at this point being green, just after the motorman had closed the door before the car…