Moran v. Milford & Uxbridge Street Railway Co.

This is an action of tort brought under R. L. c. 111, § 267, for causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, who was killed by coming into collision with a car of the defendant on the evening of October 27, 1904, while as a traveller he was passing across its railway tracks located in Main Street in the town of Milford. In the Superior Court upon the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, at the request of the defendant the presiding judge ordered a verdict in its favor, which having been returned, the plaintiff brings the case to this court on exceptions.

The intestate, who was nearly seventy…