Scott v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

This is an action of tort for an injury sustained by the plaintiff while a passenger on one of the defendant’s cars, alleged to have been caused by the falling of a window.

The plaintiff testified that on the morning of June 17, 1927, she boarded one of the defendant’s cars at Lake Street, Brighton, and sat in the second seat from the front; that at this seat the window was open all the way to the top and no one had gone near it from the time she entered up to the time the accident happened; that "... [she was] just about five minutes on the car when all of a sudden . . . [she] felt this awful…