McManus v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

At about 4.30 p.m., on November 6, 1906, the plaintiff, a boy nine years old, was injured while crossing Washington Street at the corner of School Street, in the vicinity of Egleston Square in Boston. As an electric car, going out toward Forest Hills, was coming to a stop at the crossing, he started from the sidewalk, passed behind and within two or three feet of that car, and was struck by an inbound car which he did not see until he came in contact with it. According to his own testimony he was familiar with the locality, knew that cars were going back *192and forth all the time, and that they…