Reardon v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

This action is here upon the defendant’s exception to the refusal of the trial judge to order a verdict in its favor.

The plaintiff, desiring to become a passenger upon a street car of the defendant, entered upon Dorchester Avenue, a public highway in Boston, in which the defendant had two tracks. There had been a heavy fall of snow, and the tracks and the space between them had been cleared by the defendant. The snow was piled in sloping banks, about three feet high close to both outside rails and to a considerably greater height next to the sidewalks. The sidewalks were impassable and…