Walker v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

This was an action in the Superior Court by which the plaintiff sought to recover for the personal injuries and property damage sustained by her when her car was struck on a public way by a bus owned by the defendant authority (MBTA) and operated by the individual defendant in the course of his employment by the MBTA. The action was commenced more than two but less that three years after the date of the accident. Both defendants appeared by counsel for the MBTA and moved to dismiss the action as to each of them on the ground that the action had not been commenced within the two-year period of…