Hunt v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two ACTIONS OF TORT, against the Boston Elevated Railway-Company, the first by a married woman for personal injuries from the sliding door at the end of a car of the defendant, on which she was being transported as a passenger, shutting upon her fingers when the car gave a lurch in passing around a curve of the elevated railway between the North Station and City Square in that part of Boston called Charlestown and she had grasped the casing of the door for support, and the…
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Two ACTIONS OF TORT, against the Boston Elevated Railway-Company, the first by a married woman for personal injuries from the sliding door at the end of a car of the defendant, on which she was being transported as a passenger, shutting upon her fingers when the car gave a lurch in passing around a curve of the elevated railway between the North Station and City Square in that part of Boston called Charlestown and she had grasped the casing of the door for support, and the second by the husband of the plaintiff in the first case for loss of her services by reason of such injuries and expenses…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
These are actions of tort, that of the female plaintiff being for injuries to her person, and that of the male plaintiff for the consequential damage suffered by him as her husband. *184In this opinion the word “plaintiff” refers to Catherine Hunt, the plaintiff in the first case.
The plaintiff in company with another woman named McCarty took an elevated train at the Dudley Street terminal in Boston for City Square, Charlestown, on July 5, 1905. After the train passed the Park Street station in the subway Mrs. McCarty became sick, and at Haymarket Square went with the guard’s permission to stand…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Foley v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- McGann v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Weinschenk v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
- Faulkner v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Stevens v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
3Cited by20 opinions
- Bigwood v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Work v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Ducharme v. Holyoke Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- O'Brien v. BernoiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Anderson v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
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