Souza v. United Electric Railways Co.

This is an action for negligence to recover for personal injuries resulting from a collision between a trolley car of defendant and a two-horse coal wagon of which plaintiff was the driver. The case is here on a bill of exceptions, the principal exception being to the direction of a verdict for defendant.

The collision occurred at the corner of Warren avenue and Abby street in East Providence in the evening after dark on October 29, 1924. Warren avenue is a wide highway which at this point runs east and west. The traveled way for vehicles is between two trolley tracks, one of which for…