Soebel v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions OE tort, the first by Celia Soebel for personal injuries alleged to have been received by her on June 12,1901, from the alleged negligence of the servants of the defendant in starting an open electric car from which she was alighting as a passenger, and the second by Abram Soebel, the husband of the plaintiff in the first case, for damages from his loss of her services and the expense of attendance and medicines incurred by reason of her injuries.
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Two actions OE tort, the first by Celia Soebel for personal injuries alleged to have been received by her on June 12,1901, from the alleged negligence of the servants of the defendant in starting an open electric car from which she was alighting as a passenger, and the second by Abram Soebel, the husband of the plaintiff in the first case, for damages from his loss of her services and the expense of attendance and medicines incurred by reason of her injuries. Writs dated June 3, 1903. In the Superior Court the cases were consolidated and were tried together before Bell, J. On the question of…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The defendant has filed two bills of exceptions, one founded on instructions to the jury at the trial, and the other on a ruling of the judge at a hearing of certain motions *50of the defendant for a new trial. The only question argued upon the first bill relates to the judge’s instructions upon the burden of proof. The instructions on this point were quite full, given in part in the original charge, and in part after a question had been raised at its close by the defendant’s counsel. In explaining the term “ burden of proof,” the judge said that the jury could not find in accordance with a…
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